French trawlermen blockade
- Title
- French trawlermen blockade
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 14 Aug 1980
- Year of production
- 1980
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- Duration
- 00:02:32
- Description
- Interview with Captain Richard Wilks, Second World War veteran, on the action taken by French trawlermen in blocking off Channel ports to incoming passenger ferries and how he moved the Sealink ferry Hengist out of Dunkirk despite the blockade. Male interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- Richard Wilks
- Keywords
- Strikes; Labour disputes; France; Military operations; Ferries; Fishermen; Veterans (Armed Forces); Ship masters; Trawlers (vessels); Dunkirk; OPeration Dynamo (1940)
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LBC/IRN, "French trawlermen blockade". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0016200185008 (Accessed 21 Apr 2025)