Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster (Herald of Free Enterprise) BBC News report (1987)

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  • This clip was from an old VHS tape that was recently removed from a skip. Some sound issues.
    MS Herald of Free Enterprise was a roll-on roll-off (RORO) ferry which capsized moments after leaving the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on the night of 6 March 1987, killing 193 passengers and crew.
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  • @joshmcphee1412
    @joshmcphee1412 7 років тому +30

    I saw this ship in Kaoishung(Taiwan)in 1988.I took a ship to scrap.She was laying there with no signs of her being broken up.I asked the ships agent about her.He replied 'this is new ship for ferry crossings South China sea'.I was speechless,they obviously had no idea of what she'd been involved in.

    • @Creanda
      @Creanda 7 років тому +17

      She never sailed again, she almost sank on the voyage to Taiwan and she was scrapped in late 1988.

    • @joshmcphee1412
      @joshmcphee1412 7 років тому +4

      Yeah your right;apologies

    • @joshmcphee1412
      @joshmcphee1412 7 років тому +4

      She wasn't scrapped,she was refurbished and sold to a ferry company in the Phillipines

    • @leicestergirl63
      @leicestergirl63 6 років тому +7

      Josh McPhee: From Wikipedia ~ The vessel was salvaged and put up for sale, and on September 30, 1987, was sold to Naviera SA Kingstown, and was renamed Flushing Range. Then on March 22, 1988, she was taken to Taiwan to be broken up.

    • @Fcutdlady
      @Fcutdlady 6 років тому +5

      @@joshmcphee1412 what was her name when you saw her. She was not called the herald of free enterprise for her journey to Taiwan. Also if what you say is true in sure you can give me her current name avd company she works for.

  • @Keepingitrespectfulmostly.
    @Keepingitrespectfulmostly. 5 років тому +10

    My old man used to drive aboard for a trucking firm called Cavewood.. He told me the oldest and the youngest Cavewood drivers died in this disaster.. Complete and utter tragedy. Condolences to anyone who suffered a loss and bereavement..

    • @annewallace8744
      @annewallace8744 Рік тому

      Ive actually been on this ferry in the 80s couldve been myself and my family awful doesnt bear thinking about

  • @williamharper6458
    @williamharper6458 7 років тому +17

    Thank goodness that this old newsreel was saved from destruction as this is very important to future historians etc?. I remember it very well as i was only 13 years old at the time,way back in 1987.

  • @gigacannon
    @gigacannon 3 роки тому +3

    I've used this video in referencing a case study I'm writing on the incident. I'm so glad it was saved from a skip! History thanks you

  • @mandylydick879
    @mandylydick879 7 років тому +16

    RIP to all those tragically lost and those left grieving.

  • @sjc14031974
    @sjc14031974 8 років тому +11

    I will always remember the date of this disaster in 1987 as it occurred on March 6th,the same date as my late mother's birthday.RIP to all the victims

  • @stuartsutherbaker
    @stuartsutherbaker 5 років тому +5

    I sailed on this ferry a month or so before this happened on the way back from my holiday in Holland. Not many ferries are named but I remembered the Heralds name. So sorry for the ones lost and not as fortunate as me.

  • @randbarrett8706
    @randbarrett8706 4 роки тому +5

    It’s interesting to hear them postulate about why the bow doors are open. You wouldn’t expect the boat to just leave harbor without bothering to close them.

  • @sueweisberg1474
    @sueweisberg1474 4 роки тому +9

    Been on this ferry several times as I used to live in Dover
    Watched in horror from Canada after my Dad called me to let me know
    Went to Dover two weeks later, it felt awful there

    • @ytaccountaccess262
      @ytaccountaccess262 4 роки тому +1

      Yeah, went on it a few times myself

    • @ianmangham4570
      @ianmangham4570 2 роки тому

      Me too, I remember it well because I'd just started work, terrible tragedy the poor folk, R. I.P 🇬🇧

  • @dominewimbury9120
    @dominewimbury9120 7 років тому +9

    30 years ago tonight. RIP all xx

  • @aimcsgo6
    @aimcsgo6 7 років тому +11

    My grandmother lost her cousin from this, Bettina Picinco, 49, of Cleveland. Passenger.

  • @rich_edwards79
    @rich_edwards79 4 роки тому +5

    I remember watching the Breakfast news report on the Saturday morning as a 7yo. Having become fascinated with Titanic the year before (likely as a result of the expeditions down to the wreck) I took an avid interest in anything to do with ships and the sea.
    I followed the salvage operation and then the inquiry the following year, and someone gave me a copy of the Readers Digest that had the full story including survivor accounts, which really brought home the human dimension and the terror the passengers must have felt being trapped in a sinking ship.
    As others have said, the late 1980s seemed to be one disaster after another, often with horrific loss of life, and looking back now, the Herald was very much a metaphor for the 80s / Thatcherite tendency to cut corners in order to make a profit. 'Disease of sloppiness' indeed, and in some ways, we haven't learned a thing (see: Grenfell Tower).
    RIP to all those lost that freezing night 33 years ago. I lost someone precious to me in very different circumstances, and I know that whilst the relentless passage of time makes it less immediate, it never really 'heals' those scars.

    • @ukqwerty999
      @ukqwerty999 Рік тому

      How you got from a ferry captains mistake to blaming Thatcher is a most odd thought process. People still do it today weirdly.

  • @maxs6775
    @maxs6775 4 роки тому +3

    Remember sailing on the sister ship , harwich to zeebrugge route ! Before the disaster ! I was only about 10 at the time and never understood why the ship sailed with bow doors open ! The boat would leave dock and sail into the sea with now doors wide open ! Why ?

  • @WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1
    @WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1 5 років тому +7

    Herald of Free Enterprise, Piper Alpha Explosion, Lockerbie, Hillsborough, King's Cross Fire, Clapham Junction Collision, Kegworth Plane Crash, Marchioness Disaster.....
    ALL within 3 years 1987-1989

  • @itsjustajoke15
    @itsjustajoke15 5 років тому +11

    My mum and dad almost boarded this boat my dad in the army was called back to base and by luck missed the boat

  • @gr1872g
    @gr1872g 5 років тому +7

    32 years ago today in 2019, RIP the 193.

  • @davidrichardson2330
    @davidrichardson2330 6 років тому +7

    My brother in law was aboard and survived after some hours in the water. He was a crew member in the bar and food service area. It was a very difficult time and this report is not very accurate to say the least. RIP to those who were lost.

    • @HEDGE1011
      @HEDGE1011 5 років тому

      David: I'm glad your brother in law survived. You're of course correct that the report contains many inaccuracies but given that this was made while the rescue was ongoing and no investigation had even begun yet.

  • @hazelwalsh3269
    @hazelwalsh3269 5 років тому +8

    I remember sailing to France on this ship in August 1987... I didn’t like it!! National Anthem at the end of the programme brings back strange memories!!

    • @mrkipling2201
      @mrkipling2201 2 роки тому +1

      Brings back memories of television closedown!! What a quaint thing that was. I miss it in a way!! I’m a huge nostalgia addict!!

    • @jamesmitchell8922
      @jamesmitchell8922 Рік тому

      1986

  • @Chubachus
    @Chubachus 7 років тому +5

    RIP. First time I've heard of this disaster.

    • @willrichardson519
      @willrichardson519 5 років тому +1

      Iconic, a metaphor for Thatcherism and the idiotic bonfire of red tape ideology like Grenfell Tower. Regulations are standards, how high or low do we want our standards to be?

  • @mrkipling2201
    @mrkipling2201 6 років тому +6

    Unbelievably strange how many disasters occurred during the 1980’s. No decade before or since I think has seen as many disasters as this one

    • @willrichardson519
      @willrichardson519 5 років тому

      What a coincidence, if there were 2 occurrences, three or more is a trend, isn't it?

    • @stevensmith5816
      @stevensmith5816 3 роки тому

      piper alpha, lockerbie ,british midlands crash,chernobyl, hillsborough, heysel, bradford stadium fire ,san francisco earthquake , london underground fire, clappam junction train crash the list goes on and on !!!

    • @mrkipling2201
      @mrkipling2201 2 роки тому

      @@stevensmith5816 absolutely. The Marchioness disaster, European gateway, Air India 182. So many.

    • @ukqwerty999
      @ukqwerty999 Рік тому

      @@stevensmith5816 i wonder if other decades are actually any different if you list the numbers

  • @sloth-gaming
    @sloth-gaming 5 років тому +5

    The car deck openers ? Hmmmm seemed to happened a few times

  • @clementinechristenson
    @clementinechristenson 3 роки тому

    never liked boats since this... I remember this terrible disaster every time Im on one- those poor people... RIP

  • @jakefletcher263
    @jakefletcher263 4 роки тому +1

    My grandad was ment to go aboard but was luckily late

  • @ianmangham4570
    @ianmangham4570 2 роки тому

    She was extremely LUCKY

  • @Truthseeker1515
    @Truthseeker1515 6 років тому +4

    Complete incompetence.....they left the forward doors opened! And these RORO ferries have hardly any keel, totally unstable. An accident waiting to happen. Lucky the ship found a sandbank.

  • @jamesmitchell8922
    @jamesmitchell8922 Рік тому

    The film shown before this was The Elephant Man.

  • @michaelwalker2676
    @michaelwalker2676 5 років тому +1

    I remember this tragedy happening, from watching TV. Tragic. Preventable?

    • @09weenic
      @09weenic 4 роки тому

      Very much so - if the crew had shut the bow doors upon leaving Zeebrugge it would not have happened . Amazingly no one was prosecuted for the loss of life in this tragedy

  • @nicopatrizi1953
    @nicopatrizi1953 4 роки тому +1

    Stephen Jessel that in 1997 reported the death of Lady D

  • @fizz113
    @fizz113 4 роки тому +4

    0:18 most of them rich?

  • @harrylittler8542
    @harrylittler8542 5 років тому +1

    My grandad was going to work but he was on leave so he didn't he was in the engine room so if he went he would of died rip to all those who died
    And got injured

  • @annewallace8744
    @annewallace8744 Рік тому

    This doesnt bear thinking about my family and i went on this ship to dover to calais on holiday in the 80s you didnt think it would be unsafe it couldve been us we went on ferry after disaster they put a tanoy out saying the bow doors were closed i felt very afraid and frightened to go on a ferry after that all those poor people who died i keep thinking it couldve been us we used it to go to france on holiday those poor people who died just awful

  • @DarrenVelSatis
    @DarrenVelSatis 5 років тому

    so sad.

  • @iliketowatchvideos47
    @iliketowatchvideos47 3 роки тому +1

    Human error stupid error

  • @techtinkerin
    @techtinkerin 3 роки тому

    Been on this ship as a kid, always remember my parents saying look the ship's called enterprise (star trek)😊puked in a bag n fed the fishes..

  • @randbarrett8706
    @randbarrett8706 4 роки тому +1

    This is indeed what free enterprise gets you

  • @ahmeddhagahofficial9034
    @ahmeddhagahofficial9034 4 роки тому

    27th February 1987

    • @09weenic
      @09weenic 4 роки тому

      No it was 6th March 1987

  • @nelsonlariccia
    @nelsonlariccia 6 років тому

    TT LINES! MS HERALD! WELCOME

  • @normangrainger3983
    @normangrainger3983 8 років тому

    thought it was hull to Zeebrugge not Dover

    • @joshuasheekysheekey8581
      @joshuasheekysheekey8581 7 років тому +1

      Townsend Thoresen ran two channel routes between Dover and Calais and PO ferries have a route ferries do have a route between Hull-Zeebrugge using the MV PRIDE OF YORK and the PRIDE OF BRUGGES however back in 1987 there was a route linking the ports of Dover-Zebrugge but now only the Hull Zebrugge route remains. Townsend Thoresen was a subsidy of P&O Ferries

  • @nelsonlariccia
    @nelsonlariccia 6 років тому

    STANLEY TOOLS!

  • @anthonylawless3384
    @anthonylawless3384 7 років тому

    At 2.50 the reporter mentions the Dutch authorities. What has it got to do with them?

    • @robertbarker5981
      @robertbarker5981 7 років тому +1

      Anthony Lawless Every little helps

    • @outsidethepyramid
      @outsidethepyramid 7 років тому +9

      THEY WERE HELPING.
      "What has it got to do with them" lol

    • @TheKonga88
      @TheKonga88 6 років тому +1

      Anthony Lawless They were trying to send sex dolls to England on a pirate ship and they were caught 😈😈🙅🙆👱👱👱👱

    • @garylawless2236
      @garylawless2236 5 років тому +2

      The coastline, silly.

    • @willrichardson519
      @willrichardson519 5 років тому

      The next country up the coast, all hands on deck, the main source of divers was Plymouth!

  • @mrpendleton5414
    @mrpendleton5414 5 років тому

    Roll on roll off roll over

  • @barbarabeswick3472
    @barbarabeswick3472 6 років тому

    *ROBLOX DEATH SOUND INTENSIFIES*

  • @wildboar3170
    @wildboar3170 8 років тому +1

    Of course the doors were never closed - funny how rumours get picked up by the bbc

    • @Frserthegreenengine
      @Frserthegreenengine 4 роки тому +2

      remember this is early on, they didn't know the full cause of the disaster at that point.