Herald of Free Enterprise disaster

Title

Herald of Free Enterprise disaster

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

9 Mar 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:02:34

Description

Report on return to UK via Gatwick of survivors from the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster, after she sank in the North Sea on 06/03/87. Includes interviews with David Hirst, Gatwick Airport PR Director; John Flindall, headmaster of orphaned Martin Hartley. Male reporter not identified (poss. Mark Mardell).

Contributors

Mark Mardell?; David Hirst; John Flindall

Keywords

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

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