LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Maxim Gorky, Soviet cruise ship, hits iceberg

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

Jun 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:01:11

Description

Report on a Norwegian search and rescue operation relating to a stricken Soviet liner called the Maxim Gorky, which struck an iceberg and started letting in water. The Maxim Gorky was on a cruise from Hamburg and had over nine hundred elderly passengers on board. Includes interview with coastguard controller, Steiner(?) Bredvid(?). Male reporter not identified (poss. Oni Bhattacharya).

Contributors

Steiner(?) Bredvid(?); Oni Bhattacharya?

Keywords

Accidents; Shipwrecks; USSR; Ships; Cruise ships; Ocean liners; Search and rescue operations; Norway; Maxim Gorky (ship)

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