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 ...
A local resident said that this plaque (and the one next door, to Sir Alfred Munnings) is spurious and was erected by developers purely t...
The stone plaque is laid into the pavement.
English Heritage has acknowledged that the plaque was erected on the wrong house, and should be where Waugh actually lived, on what is no...
Gwynne moved into this house in 1671 and died here. The entire south side of Pall Mall was owned by the Crown but in 1676 she was given t...
This portion of the building was destroyed by German bombing on the night of 27th September 1940, restored in 1948.
