Herald of Free Enterprise disaster

Title

Herald of Free Enterprise disaster

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Mar 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:02:14

Description

Interview with Susan Fletcher, mother of Martin Fletcher, who lost four members of their family in the Bradford fire; on comparisons with 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. Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

Susan Fletcher

Keywords

Deaths; Shipwrecks; Fires; UK; Belgium; Bradford; Ferries; Sports stadium disasters; Seaborne disasters; North Sea; Orphans; Bradford City Football Club; Valley Parade; Martin Fletcher; Martin Hartley; Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster (1987); Zeebrugge; Townsend Thoresen

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