Ye Olde Crime

The SS Princess Alice Disaster on the Thames

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Lindsay and Madison discuss the Princess Alice Disaster, as well as why passenger counts are so important, that there’s a reason for lifeboats, and that the Thames has always been as gross as you thought.


Information pulled from the following sources:

  • 2021 Geri Walton blog post
  • 2021 Prisoners of Eternity blog post
  • 2021 Royal Museums Greenwich article by Stawell Heard
  • 2020 The British Newspaper Archive article by Rose Staveley-Wadham
  • 2020 Londonist article by Angela Jean Young
  • 2020 The Ministry of History blog post
  • 2019 Greenwich Industrial History post by Fred Bishop
  • 2019 Songs from the Age of Steam
  • 2018 BBC News article by Alice Evans
  • 2014 East London History article by Malcolm Oakley
  • Bow Creek to Anatahan article
  • Layers of London article by Margaret Chan
  • London Remembers
  • Medium post by Rae Gellel
  • Military History Fandom article
  • Wikipedia


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