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.
Check the one at the National Theatre for the current status of all 3.
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 ...
A building had been here, about where this monument is, since before 1430. It became the vicarage but its large garden was much reduced b...
As we photographed the nearby Cable Street plaque a 'person of the street' approached and told us about another plaque, down a dark alley...
Site of the Parsonage of St Nicholas Acons where scientific life assurance began in 1762. The Corporation of the City of London
These listed buildings are now used by the Royal Foundation of St. Katharine. Up until the bombs of 7 September 1940 there was a church ...
The steps are rather grand for a public park and look to us as if left over from a now-demolished substantial building (factory, head off...
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