LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Herald of Free Enterprise disaster

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

15 Apr 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:04:11

Description

Report on a memorial service at Canterbury Cathedral to commemorate the victims of the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster, which sank in the North Sea on 06/03/87; sermon by Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie. Male reporter not identified (poss. Peter Deeley).

Contributors

Robert Runcie; Peter Deeley?

Keywords

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

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