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 ...
Unveiled by Muir's house model, friend and loyal customer, Joanna Lumley.
Flats designed by Wells Coates for Molly and Jack Pritchard. Originally the block had 32 flats (later extended to 36). Most of them had v...
The plaque and the stones are in the walk-way leading from the High Street (to the south of Greenwich Picturehouse) to number 21, Burney ...
Barnsbury is surprisingly short of plaques and memorials of any kind, so Anna's plaque is very welcome. But it would be anyway - a unique...
Thomas Woolner RA, sculptor and poet, lived here, 1860 - 1892.
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