Thought you maybe interested in this .... one of those obscure memorials people pass by every day ! Set into the Thames embankment wall, and placed there originally to the memory of the officers and men of the British Navy who lost their lives serving in submarines during the First World War-inscriptions now cover those of 1939-1945 - a circular bronze bas-relief sculpture is featured showing the interior of an early submarine. The artists, F. Brook Hatch and A.H. Ryan, doing much to illustrate the cramped conditions of such vessels. And all around there are Nereids (those daughters of Nereus and sea nymphs of Greek mythology) which are flanked by the figures of Truth and Justice and lists of those submarines that were lost. And what better to hang wreaths on than those bronze anchors set into the wall either side of the memorial. A memorial that, on the seventieth anniversary of its unveiling in 1922, was itself commemorated with the addition of the small plaque seen below the main one. http://www.hellfire-corner.demon.co.uk/westlakelondonone.htm
