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By billy_green

HMS Albion

At 'East London cemetery' in Hermit Road, canning Town (where I visit my grandparents) there is this ship's anchor on the memorial to those killed when the viewing platform collapsed at the launch of HMS Albion in 1898. 
The iron works that made the ship is where the football club, West Ham United was founded. 
The crossed riveting hammers on the club crest indicate the link to the shipyard as does West Hams nickname, 'The Irons'

(Interesting article here - 
https://isleofdogslife.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/the-tragedy-at-the-launch-of-the-hms-albion-at-blackwall-1898/ )

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