Guess the Place

[shoot999]

This one?

14 April 1925MOTOR BOAT DISASTER.SIX MEN MISSING.Collision in the Dark.A motor boat belonging to the R.F.A. Bacchus, with a crew of eleven, was passing down the Medway last night from Chatham Dockyard to return to the Bacchus, when it collided with a motor barge and sank. Six men are missing; presumed drowned. The accident happened about midnight, and neither the boat nor the bodies of any of the six missing men, who were all attached to the R.F.A. Bacchus have been recovered.

Not this one John Walker. Looking at the 50s between a civilian ship and Navy vessel. The large loss of both civilian and service personnel were from the RN vessel.

[John Walker]

This one?
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[/size]14 April 1925[/size]MOTOR BOAT DISASTER.SIX MEN MISSING.Collision in the Dark.A motor boat belonging to the R.F.A. Bacchus, with a crew of eleven, was passing down the Medway last night from Chatham Dockyard to return to the Bacchus, when it collided with a motor barge and sank. Six men are missing; presumed drowned. The accident happened about midnight, and neither the boat nor the bodies of any of the six missing men, who were all attached to the R.F.A. Bacchus have been recovered.

[shoot999]

The memorial plague to those that did not make it is housed in St George's Centre, Chatham.

[KeithG]

John Walker.... Wasn't that London and not Kent?

This was the one I was thinking of - Greenhithe ...

10 February 1950Marchioness    United Kingdom     The collier was in collision with Durmitor ( Yugoslavia) in the Thames Estuary at Greenhithe, London and sank. All twelve crew were rescued.

Ah!....... thanks for that.

[shoot999]

A collision between a civilian ship and a naval ship?

Civilian and Navy. Yes.

[John Walker]

A collision between a civilian ship and a naval ship?

[John Walker]

John Walker.... Wasn't that London and not Kent?

This was the one I was thinking of - Greenhithe ...

10 February 1950Marchioness    United Kingdom     The collier was in collision with Durmitor ( Yugoslavia) in the Thames Estuary at Greenhithe, London and sank. All twelve crew were rescued.

[shoot999]

Read the civilian clue again. I was only asked about civilians.

[KeithG]

John Walker.... Wasn't that London and not Kent?

[John Walker]

The Marchionesse collision ? - (not the more recent one)

[shoot999]

Not Orwell. But you are in the right area.

[John Walker]

Collision with Thames Barge Orwell ?

[shoot999]

'Some civilians were rescued'  is factually correct. So is 'some civilians were ALSO rescued.'

[MartinR]

I did wonder about the South Goodwin Lightship (LV90) in 1954, but only one man was saved and that was by US Helicopter.

[shoot999]

A rescue of civilians?  From floods? 1953?

Close in so many respects.


Some civilians were rescued.


Water was involved.


The right decade.