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Monument dedicated to Royal Mail steamers the Rhone and the Wye in Southampton Old Cemetery

Monument dedicated to Royal Mail steamers the Rhone and the Wye in Southampton Old Cemetery.
The Rhone and Wye were two Royal Mail steamers which were lost in 1867 during a hurricane in the British Virgin Islands. On the monument in the Old Cemetery there are carved representations of both ships and the names of those lost.