Archive for June, 2008
Port Adelaide to celebrate Australia’s first Merchant Navy Day
With its rich maritime history, it is fitting that Port Adelaide will celebrate Australia’s first national Merchant Navy Day on Wednesday September 3 in nautical style.
All local families with links to the sea are being invited to join the Merchant Navy March leaving the Seafarers Centre at 11 am that day to commemorate all seafarers who have served in war and peace.
The march will go through Black Diamond Square and along the wharf to the old Ports Building.
Serving and former merchant seamen, their families and representatives from other maritime groups including the Maritime Union of Australia will head the March.
The march will conclude with a special commemoration at the superb Navigator memorial to Lost Seafarers by local sculptor Karen Genoff.
Karen has many fine works of art in public locations around Australia.
In granite, lyten steel, breakwater rocks and timber, the Navigator memorial stands outside the old Ports building.
It was unveiled in 1992 for the SA Department of Marine and Harbours Port Adelaide.
This sculpture is to be incorporated in a new waterfront Seafarers Memorial for Port Adelaide.
Karen Genoff is working with the Land Management Corporation in the removal, transport and placement of this sculpture at a waterfront site to be selected.
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