Herald of Free Enterprise disaster

Title

Herald of Free Enterprise disaster

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

9 Mar 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:02:39

Description

Report on Martin Hartley, eight-year old orphaned survivor of the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster, after she sank in the North Sea on 06/03/87; includes recording of a school assembly with speech by headmaster Keith Riley. Female reporter not identified.

Contributors

Keith Riley

Keywords

Shipwrecks; UK; Belgium; Ferries; Seaborne disasters; North Sea; Disasters (events); Orphans; Martin Hartley; Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster (1987); Zeebrugge; Townsend Thoresen

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