Marchioness disaster - Dredger master’s view
- Title
- Marchioness disaster - Dredger master’s view
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- Aug 1989
- Year of production
- 1989
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- Duration
- 00:01:29
- Description
- Don Able, dredger master, on the dangers of navigating the Thames and the need for 100 percent concentration. The interview comes after the sinking of the Marchioness pleasure boat following a collision with the dredger Bowbelle, on the River Thames in London (20/08/89). Male interviewer not identified. Broadcast on either 20th or 21st.
- Contributors
- Don Able
- Keywords
- London; River Thames; Boats; Disasters (events); Marchioness; Bowbelle; River navigation; Marchioness disaster (1989)
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LBC/IRN, "Marchioness disaster - Dredger master’s view". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0009400352054 (Accessed 13 May 2025)