Dover Patrol Monument

The Dover Patrol was formed in July 1914, around a nucleus of the 12 Tribal class destroyers. Through the First World War, a variety of craft served in the patrol—cruisers, destroyers old and new, submarines, mine-sweepers, armed trawlers and drifters, armed yachts, motor launches and other coastal craft—as well as a variety of aircraft - flying boats, aeroplanes, and airships. From time to time, French destroyers were included in the patrol. The patrol covered the southern part of the North Sea and the eastern portion of the English Channel, including the Straits of Dover. Its duties included escorting merchant ships, hospital ships and troop transports; anti-submarine patrols; sweeping…

A granite memorial obelisk was designed by Sir Aston Webb, perhaps better known as the designer of Admiralty Arch, the Victoria Memorial on the Mall, and the façade of Buckingham Palace, all in London. Three obelisks were erected, the first at Leathercote Point to the east of St Margaret's Bay at St Margaret's at Cliffe near Dover, on land donated by Granville Leveson-Gower, 3rd Earl Granville; a second at Cap Blanc Nez near Sangatte in northern France; and a third in New York City. The monument has an air of Egyptian architecture. It comprises a 75 ft high obelisk of square section constructed from large granite blocks, with a pyramidal top. The obelisk stands on a tall stone plinth, which…