Hms Active Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Portsmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1999. Monument.
Hms Active Memorial
- WRENN ID
- waiting-latch-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Portsmouth
- Constituency
- Portsmouth South MP: Stephen Morgan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1999
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Hms Active Memorial, Victoria Park, City of Portsmouth
- OS grid reference
- SU 638 003
- Coordinates
- 50.79962, -1.09508
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
HMS Active Memorial is a monument located in Victoria Park, Portsmouth, dating from the late 19th century. It features a four-sided polished pink granite obelisk and base, which is set on a grey unpolished granite stepped sub-base. The inscriptions on the monument state: "Erected by the Officers and Ship's Company of H.M.S. Active," referring to the ship's role as the late flagship on the west coast of Africa and the Cape of Good Hope station. The memorial honors the memory of those shipmates who lost their lives while serving with the Naval Brigade during the Kafir War of 1877-1878 and the Zulu War of 1879. The casualties are listed alongside the inscription "Agilis et parata."
Local climate
Hms Active Memorial receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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