Monument to the Titanic Engineer Officers, Southampton

Monument to the Titanic engineer Officers, Southampton.

This real photo postcard is unused.

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The Titanic Engineers' Memorial is a memorial in East (Andrews) Park, Southampton, United Kingdom, to those who died in the RMS Titanic disaster on 15 April 1912. The bronze and granite memorial was originally unveiled on 22 April 1914.

It features a bronze statue of Nike, the Greek Winged Goddess of Victory and carvings which represent the engineer officers of the ship, who died in the disaster.

The inscription down the center of the monument:

GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN
THIS. THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS
LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
ST. JOHN 15TH CH. 13TH V


TO THE MEMORY OF THE ENGINEER OFFICERS
OF THE R.M.S "TITANIC" WHO SHOWED
THEIR HIGH CONCEPTION OF DUTY AND THEIR
HEROISM BY REMAINING AT THEIR POSTS
15TH APRIL 1912.


ERECTED BY THEIR FELLOW ENGINEERS AND FRIENDS
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

To the right is a list of the 35 engineer officers who died.