The SS Princess Alice Disaster on the Thames

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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