While most of us know of the Titanic tragedy where some 1500 people lost their lives in the middle of the ocean, one lesser known disaster happened near central London and claimed the lives of over 600 people. Many of those that died, did so because of the appaling state of the waters they found themselves in. Millions of tons of raw sewage and chemicals quickly saturated their heavy clothing or entered their bodies. Today we explore the story of the SS Princess Alice.