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The Princess Alice

Tripcock Point, Thamesmead, London

The worst disaster in the history of the Thames.

On a summer evening in 1878 the pleasure steamer Princess Alice was returning to London, crowded with day-trippers from Sheerness. Near Woolwich she was rammed by a much larger collier, the Bywell Castle, and broke in two.

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When
3 September 1878
Where
51.5000, 0.0800
Group
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A memorial stands in Woolwich Old Cemetery.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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