Herald of Free Enterprise disaster

Title

Herald of Free Enterprise disaster

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

11 Mar 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:02:56

Description

Report on a visit to Zeebrugge to identify bodies and for flight over the wrecked ferry, of relatives of victims from the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster, after she sank in the North Sea on 06/03/87; interviews with relatives George Dockerell(?); Edith Waller; Jim Belsey(?). Male interviewer not identified (poss. Mark Mardell).

Contributors

Mark Mardell?; George Dockerell(?); Jim Belsey(?); Edith Waller

Keywords

Deaths; Shipwrecks; UK; Belgium; Ferries; Seaborne disasters; North Sea; Patricia Dockerell(?); Andrew Dockerell(?); Emma Dockerell(?); Mark Lennox; Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster (1987); Zeebrugge; Townsend Thoresen

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