Gardens in Gravesend. The
Princess Alice was one of the
London Steamboat
Company’s largest saloon
steamers and at around 8
p.m., in sight of North
Woolwich Pier, it collided
with a Newcastle-bound
collier, the iron-built SS
Bywell Castle.
The Princess, said to be as
‘thin as eggshell’, split in two
and sank in less than five
minutes. Many passengers
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