Commemorating the Seafarer: Monuments, Memorials and Memory

A generously illustrated survey of memorials to different kinds of seafarers, recounting the stories behind them.

This book discusses memorials - stained glass windows, church, cemetery and public monuments - commemorating British seafarers, shipbuilders and victims of shipwreck from the sixteenth century to the present. Examples have been chosen mainly from Great Britain and Ireland with a few from wider afield. They include important works by major British artists as well as more modest pr...