Download or read book The Princess Alice Disaster written by Joan Lock and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collision of the Princess Alice pleasure steamer with the Tyne collier, Bywell Castle, in the Thames in September 1878 resulted in Britain's worst-ever inland waterway accident. Almost 650 Princess Alice passengers and crew died. Whole families were wiped out; many children were left orphans; parents childless. The nation wept. Joan Lock describes vividly the lead up to the accident, the disaster itself and its aftermath. She then delves into the quarrels that the tragedy devolved into, as each side blamed the other during the extended inquiries to discover just how the accident happened and why so many people drowned. In the process, the author makes a startling discovery...
Download or read book The Wreck of the Princess Alice Or The Appalling Thames Disaster with Loss of about 700 Lives written by London journalist and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under a Veiled Moon written by Karen Odden and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of C. S. Harris and Anne Perry, a fatal disaster on the Thames and a roiling political conflict set the stage for Karen Odden’s second Inspector Corravan historical mystery. September 1878. One night, as the pleasure boat the Princess Alice makes her daily trip up the Thames, she collides with the Bywell Castle, a huge iron-hulled collier. The Princess Alice shears apart, throwing all 600 passengers into the river; only 130 survive. It is the worst maritime disaster London has ever seen, and early clues point to sabotage by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, who believe violence is the path to restoring Irish Home Rule. For Scotland Yard Inspector Michael Corravan, born in Ireland and adopted by the Irish Doyle family, the case presents a challenge. Accused by the Home Office of willfully disregarding the obvious conclusion, and berated by his Irish friends for bowing to prejudice, Corravan doggedly pursues the truth, knowing that if the Princess Alice disaster is pinned on the IRB, hopes for Home Rule could be dashed forever. Corrovan’s dilemma is compounded by Colin, the youngest Doyle, who has joined James McCabe’s Irish gang. As violence in Whitechapel rises, Corravan strikes a deal with McCabe to get Colin out of harm’s way. But unbeknownst to Corravan, Colin bears longstanding resentments against his adopted brother and scorns his help. As the newspapers link the IRB to further accidents, London threatens to devolve into terror and chaos. With the help of his young colleague, the loyal Mr. Stiles, and his friend Belinda Gale, Corravan uncovers the harrowing truth—one that will shake his faith in his countrymen, the law, and himself.
Download or read book The Wreck of the Princess Alice Or The Appalling Thames Disaster with Loss of about 700 Lives By a London Journalist i e Malcolm Stark written by Malcolm Stark and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sinking of the Princess Sophia written by Kenneth Coates and published by Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 2:00 A.M. on October 24, 1918, the Canadian Pacific steamer Princess Sophia, enroute from Skagway, Alaska to Vancouver and Victoria, ran aground on Vanderbilt Reef, leaving no survivors among 353 miners, businessmen, civil servants, their wives and children, as well as crew members. This social history traces many of their stories--how they had gone to the north, what they did there, why they were leaving that fall.
Download or read book Alice in Zombieland written by Gena Showalter and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOK 1 OF THE WHITE RABBIT CHRONICLES She won't rest until she's sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever. Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. But that's all it took. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything she knew and loved was gone. Her father was right. The monsters are real. To avenge her family, Ali must learn to fight the undead. To survive, she must learn to trust the baddest of the bad boys, Cole Holland. But Cole has secrets of his own, and if Ali isn't careful, those secrets might just prove to be more dangerous than the zombies.
Download or read book Arlo Mrs Ogg and the Dinosaur Zoo written by Alice Hemming and published by Class X. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things aren't looking good for 4X. With another teacher running away screaming (literally), Arlo wonders how long the new supply teacher will survive. When Mrs. Ogg takes the class to the zoo, Arlo realizes it's up to him to keep everyone in line. What Mrs. Ogg fails to mention is that this is no ordinary zoo...
Download or read book The Wreck of the Princess Alice written by Haughton & Co and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dead Born written by Joan Lock and published by History Press (SC). This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the bodies of a number of babies are found scattered around Islington, the volatile Detective Sergeant Best is sent undercover to lodge next door to a suspected baby farm. Dead Born is the exciting sequel to Best's adventure's in Dead Image and is again based on historical fact.
Download or read book The Great Thames Disaster written by Gavin Thurston and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wreck of the steamboat Princess Alice, 3 Sept. 1878.
Download or read book Field of Dust written by Angela Jean Young and published by . This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: September 3rd, 1878. The paddle steamer SS Princess Alice is making a ̀Moonlight Trip' from Northfleet on the Thames Estuary to Swan Pier near London Bridge. Close to Woolwich town, she collides with the collier Bywell Castle which slices her in two. Within minutes the Alice sinks to the bottom of the river. Six hundred and fifty Londoners lose their lives. It is the worst maritime disaster in Thames history. For days the bloated bodies of men, women and children are hauled out of the stinking river, watched by the children of The Creek, a dust-blown harbour community whose forty six cottages and three ale houses sustain the lives of the labourers and their families who toil in the cement factories lining the Northfleet riverbank. For the ordinary people who live, breathe, love and die amid the dust and grime, the choking atmosphere of the cement factories is taken for granted. For the factory owners, the air they breathe is fresh by comparison. They live above it all. After Florence Grant and her sister Lottie are abandoned by their mother, she uncovers evidence of her parents' secret lives. But it raises more questions than answers. Based on a true story and set against a backdrop of Victorian poverty, exploitation and the fight for women's rights, Field of Dust charts a working class girl's search for the truth about her drunken mother and the wreckage of her family. Florence is a survivor. But will she find the love and happiness she so desperately longs for?
Download or read book Re the Princess Alice Disaster Tidal Rivers Interments Bill and the Responsibilities of Riverside Parochial Authorities Second Edition By E A Carttar written by Steamboat PRINCESS ALICE and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster written by David Icke and published by Bridge of Love Publications UK. This book was released on 2002 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the horrendous day of September 11th 2001, the people of the world have been told the Big Lie. The official story of what happened on 9/11 is a fantasy of untruth, manipulation, contridiction and anomaly. David Icke has spent well over a decade uncovering the force that was really behind those attacks and has travelled to 40 countries in pursuit of the truth. He has exposed their personnel, methods and agenda in a series of books and videos.
Download or read book Dictionary of Disasters at Sea During Th written by F.L CHARLES HOCKING and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mammoth and sobering record, listing the tragically frequent disasters at sea between 1824 and 1962. The book, though daunting in size, is easy to use, giving an alphabetical list of every ship lost, with the circumstances of the sinking, and the technical data of each ship: length, beam, tonnage, speed, propulsion etc. This fascinating work of reference should be on the shelves or in the cabin of any maritime enthusiast.
Download or read book The East End Then and Now written by Winston G. Ramsey and published by After the Battle. This book was released on 1997 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charting the colourful history of the East End, this book relives all the major incidents amid then and now photographs. The Ratcliff Highway murders, the sinking of the Princess Alice, the Albion disaster, the Sidney Street siege, the Battle of Cable Street and the Bethnal Green tube shelter disaster are all featured. The philanthropists, suffragettes, Jack the Ripper and the Krays are other high profile characters included in this densely illustrated title.
Download or read book A Terrible Disaster on the Thames Saloon Boat Princess Alice Sunk written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wreck of the Princess Alice on the Thames September 3 1878 with a List of the Principal Calamities which Have Happened on Water During the Last 100 Years Etc written by Steamboat PRINCESS ALICE and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
