Scale: Unknown. A scenic model of the depicting the aftermath of the collision on the River Thames, on the 3 September 1878, between the pleasure steamer Princess Alice (1875) and the cargo steamship Bywell Castle (1870). The Princess Alice is shown with its back broken and with both the bow and stern sections sinking. The model also depicts a number of small sailing vessels in attendance including a Thames sailing barge with its sails set. The vessels are set in a realistically painted and modelled plaster sea that also serves as the baseboard. There is also mounted on the scenic sea base a memoriam card and a small damaged and discoloured pocket watch. The ship models are made of wood with metal and organic material fittings and painted in realistic colours. The hulls of both principal vessels are painted brick red below the waterline, black above, with white detailing. The hull of the Thames barge is black overall. Princess Alice has two tall funnels, while Bywell Castle has a single funnel and three masts. On pocket watch ‘Relic from the Princess Alice disaster’. On memoriam card ‘In memory of nearly seven hundred passengers, who perished by the sinking of the saloon steamer, "Princess Alice", on the Thames, off Woolwich, September 3rd, 1878’.