page_title: Sandown
section_title: HMS Eurydice
hierarchical_section_title: Sandown / HMS Eurydice
caption_attribution_description: English: Commissioned and built by Sandown's Local Government Board in 1869, the Town Hall is situated in Grafton Street.
context_page_description: Sandown is a seaside resort and civil parish on the south-east coast of the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom with the resort of Shanklin to the south and the settlement of Lake in between. Together with Shanklin, Sandown forms a built-up area of 21,374 inhabitants.
  The northernmost town of Sandown Bay, Sandown has an easily accessible, sandy shoreline with beaches that run continuously from the cliffs at Battery Gardens in the south to Yaverland in the north.
context_section_description: On 24 March 1878, the Royal Navy training ship HMS Eurydice (1843) capsized and sank in Sandown Bay with the loss of 317 lives, one of Britain's worst peacetime naval disasters. The tops of the vessel's sunken masts were still visible from Sandown two months later on the day the town's pier was opened 
  HMS Eurydice was refloated in August and beached at Yaverland to be pumped out, the subject of a painting by Henry Robins (1820-1892) for Queen Victoria who came over from Osborne House with other members of her family to see the wreck.
  There is a memorial to crew of the Eurydice in the graveyard of Christ Church, Sandown.
caption: Sandown's former Town Hall
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