Passenger ferry safety in question
- Title
- Passenger ferry safety in question
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 8 Aug 1987
- Year of production
- 1987
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- Duration
- 00:02:07
- Description
- Report on new concerns over the safety of passenger ferries following the earlier sinking of the Herald of Free Enterprise. Seven crewmen have refused to sail on Sealink’s Vortigern, and Townsend Thoresen’s Viking Ventura has been withdrawn following flooding. Sealink’s Lynne Harvey insists all its ferries are safe. Male reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- Lynne Harvey
- Keywords
- Shipwrecks; Ferries; Marine safety; Seaborne disasters; Disasters (events); Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster (1987); Townsend Thoresen; Sealink; Vortigern; Viking Ventura
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LBC/IRN, "Passenger ferry safety in question". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0009900183011 (Accessed 27 Apr 2025)