LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Herald of Free Enterprise disaster

Genre

News report; Press conference

TX Date

8 Mar 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:05:27

Description

Report on the visit of UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to the site of the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster off Zeebrugge, after she sank in the North Sea on 06/03/87; includes excerpt from news conference. Female reporter not identified.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher

Keywords

Shipwrecks; UK; Prime ministers; Belgium; Ferries; Seaborne disasters; North Sea; Disasters (events); Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster (1987); Zeebrugge; Townsend Thoresen

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