LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Herald of Free Enterprise disaster

Genre

News report; Speech; Parliamentary debate

TX Date

9 Mar 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:03:11

Description

Report on the parliamentary debate on the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster, after she sank in the North Sea on 06/03/87; includes excerpt from parliamentary debate with speeches by Transport Secretary John Moore and Robert Hughes, Shadow Transport Secretary. Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

John Moore; Robert Hughes

Keywords

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

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