September 3. Pleasure boat disaster in the Thames kills 640 in 1878.

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September 3, 1878. A Pleasure boat disaster, where the Pricess Alice collides with a castle in the Thames, kills 640.Chromolithographic die cut of a excursion paddle wheeler from around 1885.

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