NINE LIVES LOST.
A COLLISION ON THAMES. TUG FOUNDERS. L , ONLY ONE SURVIVOR. United Press Assn. —Electric Tel. Copyright (Received Dec. 29, 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 28. The unlucky spot in the Thames known as “Galleon’s Reach, neat Woolwich, where in 1878 the pleasure steamer Princess Alice sank after a -collision, with the loss of nearly 700 lives was the scene of a collision between the well known steamship American trader from New York and the tug Royalist. The latter sank in the darkness. Nine were drowned, there being only one survivor.
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Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18521, 29 December 1931, Page 8
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92NINE LIVES LOST. Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18521, 29 December 1931, Page 8
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