Herald of Free Enterprise disaster

Title

Herald of Free Enterprise disaster

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

TX Date

9 Mar 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:02:43

Description

Report on the memorial service held in Bruges, Belgium, for victims of the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster, after she sank in the North Sea on 06/03/87; sermon by Catholic Bishop of Bruges Msgr. Roger Vangheluwe; interviews with Right Rev. Richard Third, Bishop of Dover; Colonel Pat Bowman(?), British military attache. Female reporter not identified.

Contributors

Roger Vangheluwe; Pat Bowman(?); Richard Third

Keywords

Deaths; Shipwrecks; UK; Belgium; Funerals; Ferries; Seaborne disasters; North Sea; Bruges; Funeral sermons; Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster (1987); Zeebrugge; Townsend Thoresen

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