Merchant Navy Day Commemoration Service

Name: Merchant Navy Day Commemoration Service
Start: 2025-09-03T01:00:00+12:00
Location: The Maritime Room

Schedule

Wed, 03 Sep, 2025 at 01:00 am

UTC+12:00

Location

The Maritime Room | Auckland, AU

We invite you to join us in commemorating those who served and lost their lives in the Merchant Navy.
Each year the Maritime Museum commemorates those who served and lost their lives in the Merchant Navy during both World Wars. This is a one-hour public service which includes the laying of the wreath at the museum’s Merchant Navy Memorial Plaque.
We are honoured to welcome Neill Atkinson, Chief Historian at Manatū Taonga | Ministry for Culture and Heritage, as our keynote speaker for Merchant Navy Day. Neill is the editor of Hell or High Water: New Zealand Merchant Seafarers Remember the War, a collection of first-hand accounts of war at sea.