American Merchant Marine Memorial
Address:
Battery Park
Category: Monuments
Erected: 1991
Sculptor: Marisol Escobar
Description: Four bronze figures and a lifeboat are depicted. Two sailors look seaward while a third reaches to grasp the outstretched hand of a drowning seaman, who is only visible at low tide. The names of 6,700 merchant seamen lost in WWI and WWII are encapsulated here. The monument is built on a breakwater just south of Pier A.
