Memorial
SS Aguila WRNS
Current Location
Grid reference is approximate only. The plaque is item 2003/95 in the collection, Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, HM Naval Base (pp66), Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 3NH, England
OS Grid Reference
SU 62938 00571
Names listed on this memorial
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- Type of Memorial
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- WMR Reference Number
- 63245
- Description
- A rectangular brass plaque with dedicatory inscription set within a simple border. Note that the plaque was originally associated with a sick bay on HMS Wren (which could be deemed, therefore, to be the original memorial). HMS Wren (ii) was launched in 1942 but subsequently scrapped in 1956.
- Inscription
- IN EVER-LIVING AND LOVING REMEMBRANCE/ OF THE TWENTY-TWO MEMBERS OF THE W.R.N.S./ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE S.S. "AGUILA"/ SUNK BY ENEMY ACTION THE MORNING OF/ 19TH. AUGUST 1941: THIS SICK BAY IS GIVEN TO/ H.M.S. "WREN" BY THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS./ "AND IN THE FOURTH WATCH OF THE NIGHT, JESUS WENT/ UNTO THEM, WALKING ON THE SEA." (ST. MATTHEW XIV:25.)
- War
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Additional Information
- No names listed but reference to 22 dead
- Sponsor Type
- private
- Sponsored By
- Families and friends of the deceased
Previous Location(s)
Sick Bay on HMS Wren
Year of move
Post WW2
Reason for move
HMS Wren decommissioned (for sale or break-up)
- Custodian
- Royal Navy Museum
Components
- Plaque
Made from: Brass
Condition: Good
- https://museumcrush.org/eleven-objects-that-tell-the-story-of-women-and-the-royal-navy/ This article includes a photograph of the memorial plaque