Herald of Free Enterprise disaster

Title

Herald of Free Enterprise disaster

Genre

News report; Interview; Press conference

TX Date

21 Mar 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:06:25

Description

Report on the meeting of solicitors representing the victims and survivors from the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster, which sank in the North Sea on 06/03/87; criticisms of Pannone Napier (law firm); interview with Chris Irving, lawyer representing crew victims; press statement by Michael Napier; Clifford Byrne, survivor. Male and female reporters not identified.

Contributors

Clifford Byrne; Chris Irving; Michael Napier

Keywords

Shipwrecks; UK; Compensation; Belgium; Ferries; Seaborne disasters; North Sea; Disasters (events); Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; Law Society; Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster (1987); Zeebrugge; Townsend Thoresen; Pannone Napier

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