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Since 2000, 3 September has been celebrated annually as Merchant Navy Day; a memorial service is held close to that date at the Tower Hill Memorial. [47] In 2005, the Merchant Navy Association unveiled another memorial on the site. The work of Gordon Newton, it is dedicated to the Merchant Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary casualties of the 1982 ...
The Merchant Navy Medal for Meritorious Service is a state award within the British honours system. The medal is awarded to no more than 20 recipients annually who are announced on Merchant Navy Day, 3 September.
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Liverpool Naval Memorial Merchant Navy Memorial, with the memorial plinth and plaques behind, and the lantern of the Liverpool Naval Memorial beyond. The Liverpool Naval Memorial, also known as the Memorial to the Missing of the Naval Auxiliary Personnel of the Second World War or the Merchant Navy War Memorial, is a war memorial at Pier Head beside the River Mersey in Liverpool, near to the ...
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Services honoring former President Jimmy Carter are set to begin Saturday in the lead up to the official state funeral on Jan. 9 at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
The Tower Hill Memorial in London is a pair of Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorials commemorating 36,087 civilian merchant seamen who were lost at sea in the First and Second World Wars. During the First World War, 3,305 merchant ships were sunk with a total of around 17,000 crew and personnel lost.
Alaska holds the all-time U.S. record. The mercury plummeted to 80 degrees below zero on Jan. 23, 1971, in Prospect Creek, north of Fairbanks.