City Park Seaman's Memorial

Opened by His Excellency Sir Eric Neal AC CVO on 30 September 2001, the Seaman’s Memorial is located in City Park adjacent to the Port Pirie Regional Council offices in Florence Street. Mr Noel Smith, a resident of Port Pirie, former Merchant Navy seaman and Port Pirie tugboat officer designed the memorial, found the anchor located on the top of the memorial during a dredging operation in a creek near the Nystar plant and wrote the poem inscribed on the main plaque. The poem has since been included in many naval memorial functions around the world including more recently the 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.