Princess Alice Memorial, Woolwich Old Cemetery
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Princess Alice Memorial, Woolwich Old Cemetery
Image: © Marathon Taken: 9 Jun 2012
The Princess Alice was a pleasure steamer that sank off Tripcock Ness on the evening of Tuesday 3rd September 1878 in the greatest tragedy ever seen on the Thames. It had been sliced in two by the Bywell Castle, a coal ship. Only 69 out of the 700 passengers survived. Thousands of people attended the mass funeral of 120 of the victims held at Woolwich Old Cemetery on Monday 9th September (although then it was called just Woolwich Cemetery as the New Cemetery did not open until 1885). The Celtic cross monument marking the grave was paid for by the sixpenny donations of 23,000 people. In the distance is the chapel, a close up of which can be seen at http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2983511
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