The Albion battleship calamity : A new poem /
McGonagall, William.
[Edinburgh : s.n.,
1898?]
In two columns with a coat of arms above the title.
In verse.
Thirty-eight people were drowned when the bridge they were standing on to watch the launch of the battleship collapsed.
At the top of the sheet in McGonagall's hand - 'Sir Wm. Topaz McGonagall. Poet'.
First lines read: 'Twas in the year of 1898, and on the 21st of June, / The launching of the Battleship Albion caused a great gloom / Amongst the relatives of many persons who were drowned in the River Thames, / Which their relatives will remember while life remains.
English poetry
Drowning