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, Queen's Walk
We have found three (identical) plaques on the South Bank riverside recalling this disaster, as follows:
Royal Festival Hall
National Theatre - this one,
London Eye.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Marchioness at National Theatre
The pleasure boat The Marchioness collided with another vessel and sank with ...
Left to right down the plaques are: Forsyth, Davis, Garland, Houdini, which we think is the sequence of erection.
This plaque implicates De Keroualle in the attack on Dryden whereas it's more usual for responsibility to be squarely laid on Rochester, ...
Two rather sad tree boxes, one empty and the other containing a dead commemorative tree.
Sir Charles MacKerras, CH, AC, CBE, 1925 - 2010, conductor and musicologist, lived here. The Public Memorials Appeal
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