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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