Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Seat
- District
- Scarborough
- Town
- Scarborough
- County
- North Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Maker
- Relatives of WRENs and Scarborough Branch of WRENs Asssociation
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 17th July 1972
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 47198
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Current location
NEAR SCARBOROUGH LIGHTHOUSE
Scarborough
Scarborough
North Yorkshire
England
OS Grid Ref: TA 030 880
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- WOODEN BENCH WITH METAL PLAQUE
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY OF THE TWELVE SCARBOROUGH-BASED MEMBERS / OF THE W.R.N.S. WHO WERE LOST AT SEA / WHEN THE S.S. AGUILA WAS TORPEDOED EN ROUTE TO GIBRALTAR ON AUGUST 19TH 1941/ THIS SEAT WAS PRESENTED BY THE RELATIVES AND THE SCARBOROUGH BRANCH OF / THE ASSOCIATION OF WRENS TO COMMEMORATE THE THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR LOSS
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Seat
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Wood - Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Metal
- Seat
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Other
- Responsibility
- SCARBOROUGH BOROUGH COUNCIL
- Reference
- Scarborough Reference Library file on SS Aguilla. Scarborough Evening News 19/08/1971 and 17/07/1972 "Nightmare Convoy- The Story of the Lost Wrens" by Paul Lund and Harry Ludlam (Foulsham and Co Ltd 940.54.59
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