Guess the Place

[KeithG]

Is it around 73, High St  Bridge ?

[John Walker]

Continue past the church and within a couple of kilometers you will be in a busy town.

[John Walker]

Heading roughly south east behind the camera position would eventually take you on to the bypass and later through a village with a horse on a roof.

[John Walker]

Thanks Shoot999


Very sad.  Great footage from Pathe.   Kept me out of mischief for some time trying to identify the incident.


Next one. 


Small village close to a town and a river.  The scene is very similar today, except a tree now hides the view of the church.  Was on a busy route but now bypassed.

[shoot999]

You have it John Walker. Truculent went down and all  but 10 escaped with the majority of those escaping  dying of hypothermia on the many mud banks in the Thames Estuary.


Whilst being employed by the Admiralty the vast majority  of the salvage operation; ships, tugs, divers, etc are all civilians. I joined this organisation in 1966 and spent 40 years with them.


The picture shows some of the survivors coming ashore at the Bull Nose, Chatham Dockyard.


This operation  was recorded by Pathe News and the scene depicted in the photo can be seen at 1m 15s.





Over to you.


 

[John Walker]

Another try - this one fits better ...

On January 12, 1950 the submarine HMS Truculent was returning to Sheerness, having completed trials after a refit at Chatham. In addition to her normal crew, she was carrying an additional 18 dockyard workers.
HMS Truculent was travelling through the Thames Estuary when she collided with the Swedish oil tanker, the Divina, and sank to the bottom of the river.

[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?