Erection date: 1855
To the intrepid young Bellot of the French navy who in the endeavour to rescue Franklin shared the fate and the glory of that illustrious navigator.
From his British admirers, 1853.
{The river-facing side carries:}
Bellot
33ft high red granite. Â Described in detail at the splendid .
SE10, Five Foot Walk, Royal Naval College
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Bellot memorial obelisk
Explorer. Â Born Paris. Â Â For his participation in the 1845 Anglo-French exped...
Born Lincolnshire. Royal Navy. Governor of Tasmania 1836-43. where there is a...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Bellot memorial obelisk
Architect. Â His father and grandfather were both architects with the name Tho...
Diamond Geezer has a very good post on this piece of street furniture but, surprisingly, he does not comment on the accuracy of the measu...
The inscription is badly deteriorated, so we have copied the inscription from the Historic England website.
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Pink granite, 68.5 feet high, 186 tons. Vulliamy created, and Youngs cast, the bronze sphinxes at the base, about which our colleague, Al...
Made of Cornish granite. Â We've photoed the stone chain around the monument. Â Lower down is a stone rope with knots at the corners. We l...
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