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Title
'Princess Alice' Memorial
Date
1880
Medium
granite
Accession number
SE18_AS_S021
Acquisition method
funded by a national sixpenny subscription
Work type
Cross
Owner
Greenwich London Borough Council
Custodian
Greenwich London Borough Council
Work status
extant
Access
at all times
Inscription description
side one: THE SALOON STEAMER / PRINCESS ALICE / RETURNING FROM A PLEASURE EXCURSION / WAS WRECKED OFF TRIPCOCK POINT / IN COLLISION WITH / THE STEAM COLLIER BYWELL CASTLE / IN THE NIGHT OF / SEPTEMBER 3RD 1878.; side two: IT WAS COMPUTED THAT / SEVEN HUNDRED / MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN / WHO WERE ON BOARD / OF THESE ABOUT 550 WERE DROWNED / ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY / WERE BURIED NEAR THIS PLACE.; side three: IN THE MIDST OF / LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH / JESU MERCY; side four: TO THE MEMORY OF / THOSE WHO PERISHED / THIS CROSS / WAS ERECTED / BY A / NATIONAL SIXPENNY SUBSCRIPTION / TO WHOM / MORE THAN 23000 PERSONS CONTRIBUTED.
Camdale Road, Greenwich
SE18 2DT
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