Pride of Free Enterprise test voyage

Title

Pride of Free Enterprise test voyage

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

TX Date

11 May 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:04:28

Description

Report on harrowing voyage of Pride of Free Enterprise, sister ship of doomed Herald of Free Enterprise, for reconstructive tests to see what went wrong when the ferry sank outside Zeebrugge (06/03/87). Interviews with Captain Gilbert Saunders; Dr Tony Morrall, British Maritime Technology Ltd (BMT). Also includes excerpt from service conducted by Captain Saunders. Female reporter not identified.

Contributors

Gilbert Saunders; Tony Morrall

Keywords

Shipwrecks; Public inquiries; Ferries; Seaborne disasters; Disasters (events); Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster (1987); Zeebrugge; Townsend Thoresen; Pride of Free Enterprise

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