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 ...
{on the top, round plaque:} LCC Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828 - 1882, poet & painter, born here. {on the lower, oblong plaque:} Ta...
The ICC is the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Club.
In 1997, as a condition of developing the RNH site, Bellway Homes (the developer) was required to create one acre of public open space - ...
We've not seen wet slate plaques look so bad before. Perhaps this is some slate-imitation, which can't cope with rain.
The plaque would be more accurate were it placed at number 38 which was the house destroyed by the bomb. In 1950 numbers 35-38 were later...
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