Embossed Victorian mourning card, 700 Excursionists

Embossed Victorian mourning card, with an angel and a ship. Sacred to the Memory of 700 Excursionists, who were drowned in the River Thames (off Woolwich) on Tuesday, September 3, 1878, by the sinking of the saloon steamer Princess Alice, which, on her homeward journey from Sheerness to London, came into collision with the screw collier Bywell Castle

Bereavement Bywell Collier Collision Drowned Edging Embossed Excursion Excursionists Funerary Homeward Memory Saloon Sank Screw Sheerness Sunk Tragic Woolwich

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