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'Princess Alice' Memorial
'Princess Alice' Memorial
'Princess Alice' Memorial
'Princess Alice' Memorial
'Princess Alice' Memorial
'Princess Alice' Memorial
'Princess Alice' Memorial
'Princess Alice' Memorial
'Princess Alice' Memorial

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A memorial cross on a square base to the 550 men women and children that perished in the 'Princess Alice' boat disaster at Tripcock Point.
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.

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Located at

Camdale Road, Greenwich

SE18 2DT

Located close to the chapel.