Herald of Free Enterprise disaster

Title

Herald of Free Enterprise disaster

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

Mar 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:07:57

Description

Report on the Herald of Free Enterprise Townsend Thoresen ferry disaster, after she sank in the North Sea on 06/03/87; interviews with Captain William Budd of Tamar, a ship that came to the rescue; survivors Wayne and Richard McKenny; Rene Tatoud(?), a nurse at a local hospital; Jacques Thas, Belgian Navy commander in charge of rescue; Peter Ford, Townsend Thoresen chairman. Male reporter and female interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Jacques Thas; William Budd; Wayne McKenny; Richard McKenny; Peter Ford; Rene Tatoud(?)

Keywords

Deaths; Shipwrecks; UK; Belgium; Ferries; Seaborne disasters; Ships; North Sea; Maritime rescue; Search and rescue operations; Zeebrugge; Townsend Thoresen; Tamar

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