Bowbelle skipper trial
- Title
- Bowbelle skipper trial
- Genre
- Interview; Technical
- TX Date
- 31 Jul 1991
- Year of production
- 1991
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- Duration
- 00:02:13
- Description
- Billy Gorman of the Marchioness Action Group, following the retrial of the captain of the Bowbelle dredger which collided with the pleasure boat, Marchioness on the River Thames 20/08/89 with the loss of 51 lives. Captain Douglas Henderson was acquitted after the jury failed to reach a verdict. Female interviewer not identified. At start of interview is background information possibly not intended for broadcast.
- Contributors
- Billy Gorman
- Keywords
- London; Trials; River Thames; Boats; Disasters (events); Verdicts; Ship masters; Marchioness; Bowbelle; Douglas Henderson; Marchioness disaster (1989)
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