Cross at Woolwich Cemetery commemorating those lost in the ‘Princess Alice’ disaster 1878
Location
Cemetery, Woolwich, London, England
Transcript
‘THE SALOON STEAMER / “PRINCESS ALICE” / RETURNING FROM A PLEASURE EXCURSION / WAS WRECKED OFF TRIPCOCK POINT / BY COLLISION WITH / THE STEAM COLLIER “BYWELL CASTLE” / ON THE NIGHT OF / SEPTEMBER 3RD 1878’, ‘IT WAS COMPUTED THAT / SEVEN HUNDRED / MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN / WERE ON BOARD / OF THESE ABOUT 550 WERE DROWNED / ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY / WERE BURIED NEAR THIS PLACE’ ‘TO THE MEMORY / OF THOSE WHO PERISHED / THIS CROSS WAS ERECTED / BY A / NATIONAL SIXPENNY SUBSCRIPTION / TO WHICH / MORE THAN 23,000 PERSONS CONTRIBUTED’, ‘ IN THE MIDST OF LIFE / WE ARE IN DEATH / JESU MERCY’
Details
Description: Large Celtic cross.
Type: Cross
Position: Churchyard
Materials: White marble
Vessel: Princess Alice
Type: Cross
Position: Churchyard
Materials: White marble
Vessel: Princess Alice
Extra
Bibliography: Hugh Meller 'London cemeteries: an illustrated guide and gazetteer' (Amersham, 1981) p. 283.