The Malta Independent 18 June 2025, Wednesday
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200th Anniversary commemoration

Malta Independent Tuesday, 27 June 2006, 00:00 Last update: about 20 years ago

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the explosion of Royal Navy’s Gunpowder Magazine at Vittoriosa Wharf in 1806, a ceremony will be held at 6pm on Monday 3 July, at the St Lawrence Cemetery, close to De Le Salle College, where most of the casualties are buried. Mass will said by Archpriest, Can. Joe Caruana in the chapel. This will be followed with an address by the vice-president of the Historical and Cultural Society, historian Anton Attard, the inauguration of a marble tablet, the laying of a wreath and the playing of the Last Post by the scouts group.

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