Liverpool Naval Memorial

More than 13,000 officers and seamen of the Merchant Navy agreed to serve with the Royal Navy in the Second World War, serving mainly in auxiliary vessels such as armed merchant cruisers, subject to military discipline but still receiving civilian pay.

The depot for registration and administration of the naval auxiliaries from the Merchant Navy was established at Liverpool.

The memorial comprises a narrow cylindrical column of Portland stone topped by a glazed lantern, which has glass lenses with a reflective backing intended to resemble a lighthouse, which stands on a semicircular Portland stone platform surrounded by curved walls.

The platform is reached by flight of six steps, and the walls support a pair of stone globes, one terrestrial and one celestial.

The names of the dead are inscribed on 25 bronze plaques arranged around the curved Portland stone walls of the memorial.