Herald of Free Enterprise disaster

Title

Herald of Free Enterprise disaster

Genre

Press conference; Speech

TX Date

8 Mar 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:09:43

Description

Speeches at press conference by UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens on a visit to Zeebrugge to meet survivors from the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster, which sank in the North Sea on 06/03/87. Unedited recording (not intended for broadcast).

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Wilfried Martens

Keywords

Deaths; Shipwrecks; Emergency services; UK; Prime ministers; Belgium; Ferries; Seaborne disasters; North Sea; Disasters (events); Search and rescue operations; Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster (1987); Zeebrugge; Townsend Thoresen; Maritime recue

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