A wreath of blue & gold flowers, representing the blue & gold of the the uniform of the engineers, was placed at the Joseph Bell memorial in St. Thomas a Becket Churchyard, Farlam, Cumbria, to mark his death and those of his fellow engineers in the sinking of R M S Titanic on 15th April 1912.

“Our memories of the ocean will linger on, long after our footprints in the sand are gone”