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The night the Marchioness went down
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A HUGE party of friends and relatives took an emotional trip on London’s river this week to pay tribute to those who died in one of Britain’s worst peacetime disasters. Many of them had been on the party boat Marchioness 25 years before.
Fifty-one roses were floated on the murky river waters to pay tribute to those who lost their lives in the tragedy exactly a quarter-century ago.
The party was going strong in the early hours of August 20 1989 after a balmy evening on the Thames Tideway.
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