The team led by Chief Engineer Joseph Bell comprised 24 engineers, 6 electrical engineers, two boilermakers, a plumber and a clerk. When the ship foundered, they all (including those off-duty) struggled to maintain services while the evacuation took place. As they were all below decks, none had any chance of escape.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
RMS Titanic Engineers
The memorial was originally displayed in the foyer of the Institute of Marine...
Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. Imperial War Museum has a page. Another page at the IWM gives: "Walter's brother, Edward, was killed in a...
Graphic designer from Clitheroe, Lancashire. Cycling to work one morning was killed by a left-turning truck. The ghostbikes.org website gives more details about this cyclist and our colleague And...
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Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
Initially we thought this inscription referred to the 1878 Epping Forest Act of Parliament but then we came across another community buil...
In our photo the sunlit plaque can be seen inside the building, between the heads of the travellers passing through the ticket barriers.
There are two plaques on the blue bench behind the statues: Plaque 1: The characters for this Portrait Bench chosen by your community ce...
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