page_title: Romsey Abbey
section_title: Titanic connection
hierarchical_section_title: Romsey Abbey / Monastic History / Titanic connection
caption_attribution_description: British English: A memorial plaque in Romsey Abbey to Arthur (Bob) Ward, an engineer officer on the Titanic.
context_page_description: Romsey Abbey is the name currently given to a parish church of the Church of England in Romsey, a market town in Hampshire, England. Until the dissolution it was the church of a Benedictine nunnery. The surviving Norman-era church is the town's outstanding feature, and is now the largest parish church in the county of Hampshire, since changes in county boundaries have led to the larger Christchurch Priory being now included in Dorset. The current vicar is the Reverend Thomas Wharton, who took up the post in September 2018.
context_section_description: One of the Titanic's engineering officers, Arthur (Bob) Ward, who died in the sinking, is commemorated in the Abbey with a plaque in one of the chapels.
caption: Titanic memorial to Arthur Ward
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