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 ...
See the very similar southern entrance.
We photographed this plaque in Sept 2003, but on returning to photograph the building in March 2008, the plaque had gone. 2021: we retur...
Site of Endell Street Military Hospital, 1915 - 1919. Established in former workhouse buildings during the First World War under the comm...
Horatio, Lord Nelson, 1758 - 1805, lived here in 1798. London County CouncilÂ
The plaque is in the pavement, this side of the post.
