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 ...
Greater London Council Charles Bridgeman, landscape gardener, lived here, 1723 - 1738.
This plaque refers to the Euston Road extension to the original 1908 Beresford Pite building, which is of much higher quality. Neill wa...
Howard Carter, 1874 - 1939, Egyptologist and discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun, lived here. English Heritage
July 2015 The Mirror reported that 4 of these plaques (Benny Hill, Tommy Cooper, Sid James and Irene Handl) were stolen just prior to the...
The bronze plaque is at the entrance to the building which is the third bay to the right of these two blue plaques.
