Memorial to Arthur Stanley WATKINSON, 1890 - 1939.

Memorial to Arthur Stanley WATKINSON, 1890 - 1939.

Location

In St Peter's Church, Heswall.

Description

A small carved wooden panel in memory of Arthur Stanley WATKINSON, a manager at Cammell Laird shipbuilders, Birkenhead, who lost his life when the submarine Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay, June 1939.

Inscription

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
ARTHUR STANLEY
WATKINSON

AGED 47
WHO WENT DOWN IN
H.M. SUBMARINE THETIS
LOST ON HER TRIALS
LIVERPOOL BAY
JUNE 1939

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They that go down to the sea in ships
That do business in great waters
These see the works of the LORD
And His wonders in the deep.

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