LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Herald of Free Enterprise disaster

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

9 Mar 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:03:29

Description

Report on survivors of the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster, after she sank in the North Sea on 06/03/87; interviews with survivors Mark Webb; Sonia Saunders and her son Terry Upton who had to come to Zeebrugge to identify his father Michael’s body. Female reporter not identified.

Contributors

Mark Webb; Sonia Saunders; Terry Upton

Keywords

Accidents; Deaths; Shipwrecks; UK; Belgium; Ferries; Identity; North Sea; Michael Saunders; Mark Webb; Theresa Gander; Sonia Saunders; Terry Upton; Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster (1987); Zeebrugge; Townsend Thoresen

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