Yellow Submarine (sculpture)

The Yellow Submarine in Liverpool is a large model representation of the submarine featured in the animated film Yellow Submarine, and in the song of that name on the Beatles album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was built by a group of apprentices from Cammell Lairds shipyard, for exhibition at the Intrernational Garden festival in Liverpool in 1984. The submarine was in a garden themed around the Beatles, one of 60 such themed gardens, and was highly popular. The submarine itself was some 25 foot long, and 15 foot high, and weighed 25 tons.Built of steel, it had a replica control cabin and bridge, accesable via a doorway at the side. Painted in vivid yellow, the hull was tilted as if about to submerge.

After the Festival site closed, the Submarine found a home for several years in Chavasse Park, an open space in the city centre, where it was readily visible to traffic entering the city centre from the south.It was retired from public view when its condition deteriorated, but was renovated to find a new home at Liverpool Airport in 2005.