Tony Norwell
Miscellaneous
The Day The Bywell Castle
The Day The Bywell Castle Cut The Princess Alice Down
The day the “Bywell Castle” cut the “Princess Alice” down –
Six hundred people died that day – six hundred people drowned.
Because of one mistake that anyone could make –.
On the day the “Bywell Castle” cut the “Princess Alice” down.
How many people saved and scraped in every little way –
For a short release from the misery they suffered every day?
A day on the River to Sheerness then back home again –
On the day the “Bywell Castle” steamed the “Princess Alice” way.
And now all the little children who were on that ship and who –
Trusted all the adults – just as little children do –
Mostly lie in a Woolwich grave covered o’er with stone –
From the day the “Bywell Castle” cut the “Princess Alice” through.
How could such a tragedy happen then or now?
In a perfect system could it happen still somehow?
If the world were run the way that most of us would choose –
There’s no way the “Bywell Castle” could touch the “Princess Alice” now.

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