Near this spot on Sunday 20th August 1989 the pleasure boat Marchioness was in collision with another vessel and sank with the loss of 51 lives.
SE1, Jubilee Gardens
We have found three (identical) plaques on the South Bank riverside recalling this disaster, as follows:
Royal Festival Hall
National Theatre
London Eye - this one.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Marchioness at London Eye
The pleasure boat The Marchioness collided with another vessel and sank with ...
Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ, 1844 - 1889, priest and poet, lived in Oakhill Park 1852 - 1863. "The World is charged with the grandeur of Go...
{Below an image of the discus thrower:} The Ancient Games The ancient Olympic Games began in 776 BC in honour of Zeus. Nike the goddess o...
English Heritage Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Sir John Maitland Salmond, 1881 - 1968, RAF Commander, lived here, 1928 - 1936.
The nearby Tufnell Park Playing Fields are also Fields in Trust and used to have their own plaque. But, a local resident informs us, this...
LCC Field-Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, K.G. (1850 - 1916), lived here, 1914 - 15.
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