"MS Herald of Free Enterprise 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. The eight-deck car and passenger ferry, owned by Townsend Thoresen, had been designed for rapid loading and unloading on the competitive cross-channel route, and there were no watertight compartments. When the ship left harbour with her bow-door open, the sea immediately flooded the decks, and within minutes she was lying on her side in shallow water. Although the immediate cause of the sinking"
"the ships encountered the Great Storm of 1987 off Cape Finisterre, where ""Herald of Free Enterprise"" was cast adrift after its tow rope parted, resuming on 19 October 1987. The hulk began to disintegrate while off the coast of South Africa on 27 December 1987, and had to be towed into Port Elizabeth on 2 January 1988 to undergo temporary repairs to allow her to continue her voyage. She finally arrived in Taiwan on 22 March 1988. The Townsend Thoresen brand name had inevitably been seen on television and in newspapers around the world. P&O quickly decided to re-brand the"
"to concentrate on maritime and transport. Its P&O Ports and P&O Cold Logistics divisions developed from P&O's operations in Australia, where it has a leading position in these fields. Fastcraft is the name given to the service implemented after the split-up of P&O European Ferries in 1998. The first ship was called Superstar Express (entered service in 1998) and sailed alongside the Pride of Cherbourg and Pride of Hampshire to Cherbourg and back. On 6 March 1987, the roll on/roll off ferry, MS ""Herald of Free Enterprise"", capsized off the coast of Zeebrugge with 80 crew and 459 passengers aboard."
"bottom the body corporate was infected with the disease of sloppiness' (Sheen, 1987). The ""Herald of Free Enterprise"" was a modern ferry equipped with advanced technology and manned by a highly qualified crew. Only seven years prior to the accident, it was built in a German shipyard according to international maritime safety regulations. Why did it capsize? The general frustration in the shipping industry following the capsizing of the ""Herald of Free Enterprise"" is typical of the kind of accident that precipitated in a paradigm shift in maritime safety administration and the development of the ISM Code. International Safety Management"
"Secretary of State for Transport. His tenure of office at Transport was brief but coincided with the completion of major developments such as the M25 London orbital motorway and the privatisation of British Airways. The capsizing of the Herald of Free Enterprise car ferry outside Zeebrugge harbour on 6 March 1987 gave Moore considerable media exposure. These events served to raise Moore's profile even further and he played a prominent campaign role in the 1987 general election. ... what probably clinched his promotion to the DHSS yesterday was his TV performance in the party political broadcast that attacked the loony"
"the Townsend-Thoresen branded car ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized just outside Zeebrugge's harbour about 25 minutes after departure. A subsequent inquiry determined that the ship's bow doors had been left open allowing water to get onto the car deck. 193 people died as a result of the sinking. At the time of the sinking, the operating company, P&O European Ferries (Dover) Ltd were rebranding the Townsend Thoresen ferries. This was expedited rapidly due to the negative publicity that the disaster had caused to the Townsend Thoresen brand. In 1976, European Ferries took over the operations of Port of Felixstowe"
"New York Harbor in 1978, and would become one of the first to be aired on MTV when it launched on 1 August 1981. As the British task-force sailed out of Portsmouth Harbour on 5 April 1982 – the third day of the Falklands War – the recording of Rod Stewart's ""Sailing"" was broadcast from the quay's public address system. In 1987 Rod Stewart's ""Sailing"" was reissued as a charity single after the ""Herald of Free Enterprise"" disaster off the Flemish port of Zeebrugge, becoming a moderate hit in Belgium's Flemish Region (#24) and also the British Isles (#41 UK/"
"British Royal Navy temporarily put the German inland naval base at Bruges out of action. Admiral Roger Keyes planned and led the raid that stormed the German batteries and sank three old warships at the entrance to the canal leading to the inland port. This action was a partial success as it blocked the access, but the Germans dug a new canal around the ships. The raid, although a morale boosting victory in Britain, was also claimed as a victory in Germany. Later, Zeebrugge's harbour was the scene of disaster when in 1987 the MS ""Herald of Free Enterprise"" passenger"
"in Vancouver. In 1987, she began a tour of the US Pacific coast, visiting ports in the states of Washington, Oregon, and California. In 1988, she passed back through the Panama Canal to visit Texas. In 1989, she visited ports on the Gulf of Mexico. In 1990–1991 she entered a series of seaports on the east coast of the US, in 1992 returning home to tour the British Isles again. ""Golden Hinde"" has been featured in four films: ""Swashbuckler"" (1976), ""Shogun"" (1979), ""Drake's Venture"" (1980) and """" (2009). Since 1996 she has been berthed at St Mary Overie Dock on"
"issues of health and safety are delegated to junior managers who are not ""controlling minds"". On 6 March 1987, 193 people died when the ""Herald of Free Enterprise"" capsized. Although individual employees failed in their duties, the Sheen Report severely criticised the attitude to safety prevalent in P&O, stating: There was significant institutional resistance to the appropriateness of using the criminal law in general, and homicide charges in particular in this type of situation. Judicial review of the coroner's inquest persuaded the Director of Public Prosecutions to bring manslaughter charges against P&O European Ferries and seven employees, but the trial"
"in 2012. Three ships were originally built for Townsend Thoresen for the services between Europe and the UK: ""Herald of Free Enterprise"", ""Spirit of Free Enterprise"" and ""Pride of Free Enterprise"".<br> ""Herald of Free Enterprise"" was scrapped in 1988 after the capsizing at Zeebrugge as ""Flushing Range"". ""Pride of Free Enterprise"" was broken up in late 2015. This ship, ""Spirit of Free Enterprise"" sailed under a range of names on both English Channel as well as between the Greek islands. She was scrapped in September 2012 as MS ""Anthi Marina"". MS Anthi Marina ""MS Anthi Marina"" was the first of"
"the port was under construction, a main road Kwai Chung Road was built to connect Kwai Chung and Kowloon. Container Port Road, a branch road of Kwai Chung Road, links the port with major industrial areas in Hong Kong. The first container vessel to call on the new terminal, on 5 September 1972, was the ""Tokyo Bay"". Thanks to the success of the Kwai Chung Port, Hong Kong overtook New York City in 1986 as the world's second-busiest port. In 1987 it seized the title of world's busiest port from Rotterdam. The port consists of nine container terminals and their"
"into service under the management of Securicor, who had been running immigration detention facilities since 1970. Acceptance of the new arrangements required that the Earl William prove itself as cost effective, humane and secure. In October 1987 the strongest gale to hit England in 200 years broke the vessel free of its moorings and it ran aground on a sandbank. Although none of its 78 detainees was injured the credibility of the exercise was fatally undermined and it was not used again. The 1987 Carriers Liability Act sought to place greater responsibility on those bringing passengers to the UK to"
"labour force employed by the Admiralty to construct the Harbour of Refuge breakwater. The Admiralty project was unique in Scotland as it was served by the only state-owned passenger-carrying railway in its day. On 28 September 1987 a riot in the prison's D wing resulted in prisoners taking over the building and taking a prison officer, 56-year-old Jackie Stuart, hostage. The rioters were serving life in prison for violent crimes. It was thought that they had nothing to lose and would not hesitate to make good on their threats to kill their hostage, whom they had taken up to the"
"Express, but it didn't last long. In 2015, MV ""Danica"" ""Joy"" was the only ship to serve that route. September 22, 2016 when, MV ""Danica"" Joy arrived to Zamboanga International Seaport by 4 p.m. coming from Sandakan. After all passengers had already disembarked hours, the ship listed on its starboard side and capsized by around 9:30 PM. The ship was carrying 799 passengers of which 11 Malaysians and one Australian—and 603 deportees. Luckily, all passengers were unloaded earlier on, resulting to no casualties. The Philippine Coast Guard cited cargo mishandling caused a ferry to capsize. Commodore Pablo Gonzales Jr., PCG"
"Emerald Shipholding SA. Her port of registry was Panama City. The IMO Number 8708842 was allocated. On 26 April 1988, she ran aground and capsized off Oporto, Portugal. One crew member was killed. She was carrying a cargo of 5,432 new cars. ""Reijin"" was on her maiden voyage, from Japan to Ireland. It was decided that two-thirds of the cars were to be dumped in water in excess of deep, followed by the sinking of the ship in waters of a similar depth. Although the dumping of the cars was started, it was not completed as such action was in"
"and Iraq. The Plan was approved by the President and later affirmed by the G-7 leaders headed by Margaret Thatcher in the London Summit of 1984. On 17 May 1987, an Iraqi Dassault Falcon 50–modified business jet launched two Exocet missiles at the , a ""Perry"" class frigate. The first struck the port side of the ship and failed to explode, though it left burning propellant in its wake; the second struck moments later in approximately the same place and penetrated through to crew quarters, where it exploded, killing 37 crew members and leaving 21 injured. Whether or not Iraqi"
"Central River Division and the Conrail River Line before being abandoned. The United Fruit Company once maintained the largest banana warehouse in the United States adjacent to its berths. As with much of the traditional harbor of the Port of New York and New Jersey, the infrastructure became obsolete as passenger and freight transport patterns changed. The restoration of rail and ferry services is of a much smaller scale. In 1981 Arthur Edward Imperatore, Sr., trucking magnate, purchased a length of the Weehawken Yard from the bankrupt Penn Central for $7.5 million, his surname an inspiration for ""Port Imperial"". New"
"helped offset declining traffic to the Port of Seattle, leading to a $80 million modernization and expansion program begun in 1968. The Port of Tacoma debuted its own cargo container-ready facilities in 1970, and gradually lured away several large shipping lines from Seattle through the 1990s, including Alaska-based Totem Ocean Trailer Express (1976), SeaLand (1983), Maersk (1985), K Line (1988), and Evergreen Marine (1991). The Port of Seattle's largest line, Hyundai Merchant Marine, moved to a new, $65 million terminal in Tacoma in 1996. By the turn of the 21st century, Tacoma eclipsed Seattle to become the largest port in"
"working as a researcher for Republican Senator John Tower on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Mates joined ITN in 1983 as an editorial trainee and was appointed scriptwriter in the ITV newsroom two years later. He was made a general reporter at ITN in 1986. Amongst his first assignments on becoming a reporter was to cover the Zeebrugge ferry disaster. He spent five weeks in Zeebrugge in 1987 during the operation to raise the capsized ferry 'Herald of Free Enterprise'. Another major assignment was to cover the UK's failed extradition attempt from the Republic of Ireland of Father Patrick Ryan"
"the story of the disaster and its aftermath. A second edition, updated to reflect the thirtieth anniversary, was released on 30 April 2018. St Mary's Church, Dover houses a permanent memorial to the disaster. Australian businessman Maurice de Rohan, who lost his daughter and son-in-law in the tragedy, founded Disaster Action, a charity which assists people affected by similar events. The following British awards for gallantry on the night of the sinking were gazetted on 30 December 1987: Fate of the three sister ships: Citations Sources MS Herald of Free Enterprise MS ""Herald of Free Enterprise"" was a roll-on/roll-off (RORO)"
"the construction of New World Centre and The Regent Hong Kong (renamed the InterContinental Hong Kong since 2001) on the site. Construction was completed in 1982. In 2017, the site renamed to Victoria Dockside. Holt's Wharf Holt's Wharf () was a godown terminal in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong in the 20th century. It was set up in 1910 and jointly owned by British Swire Group and Blue Funnel Line. It was located at the southeast seaside of Tsim Sha Tsui and the south of Signal Hill. Since it was next to Tsim Sha Tsui KCR Station, it acted"
"Oceania. In late 1987 French authorities stopped a merchant vessel, the MV ""Eksund"", which was attempting to deliver 150 tons of Soviet arms from Libya to the Irish Republican Army (IRA). In Beirut, Lebanon, two British hostages held by the Libyan-supported Abu Nidal Organization, Leigh Douglas and Philip Padfield, along with an American named Peter Kilburn, were shot dead in revenge. In addition, journalist John McCarthy was kidnapped, and tourist Paul Appleby was murdered in Jerusalem. Another British hostage named Alec Collett was also killed in retaliation for the bombing of Libya. Collett was shown being hanged in a video"
"Newark and Elizabeth. This was the first port in the world to containerize due to the innovation of Malcolm McLean and the founding of the Sea-Land Corporation. The newly opened port quickly made the docks of Brooklyn, Lower Manhattan and Hoboken obsolete. In 1985 the port was the busiest in the world. In the early 1950s, the cities of New Jersey began experiencing urban decay. Governments attempted to intervene with the urban decay, focusing on the office Gateway Center and several other projects. However, suburbs continued to grow. Revolts occurred, often due to frustration about the poor urban conditions. As"
"Toubro. ISD focuses on port development and land reclamation in India. ""Scaldis Salvage & Marine Contractors"" was formally established in 1995, following a joint venture with the same partners since June 1981. Scaldis is involved with wreck removal and heavy lifting. DEME has a stake of 55 per cent in Scaldis. Widely publicized achievements of Scaldis include the salvage of the French freighter ""Mont Louis"" in 1985; the raising of the Herald of Free Enterprise in 1987; and the salvage of the MV ""Tricolor"" car carrier off Dunkirk, following a 2002 collision at sea. DEME is also a founding member"
"Marine detachment and air wing prepared for a possible mission to rescue and evacuate the Americans, but Amin eventually released all the hostages. The ships then steamed across the Indian Ocean at high speed to make a previously scheduled final port call at NAS Cubi Point in the Philippines before returning to NAS Alameda. In 1978, ""Enterprise"" underwent her ninth Western Pacific deployment, including port calls in Hong Kong, Perth, Australia, and Singapore. In January 1979, the carrier sailed into Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for a comprehensive 36-month overhaul. This overhaul modified the ship's superstructure — removing the SCANFAR radars"
"Enterprise (slave ship) The Enterprise was a United States merchant vessel active in the coastwise slave trade in the early 19th century along the Atlantic Coast. Bad weather forced it into Hamilton, Bermuda waters on February 11, 1835 while it carried 78 slaves in addition to other cargo. It became the centre of a minor international incident when the British authorities freed nearly all the slaves. Britain had abolished slavery in its Caribbean colonies effective 1834. At that time it advised ""foreign nations that any slavers found in Bermuda [and the Bahamas] waters would be subject to arrest and seizure."
"cargo of food and clothing from Germany to Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands to supply the crews of ""Kaiserliche Marine"" crews interned there. In 1933, her port of registry was changed to Bremerhaven. The following year, her Code Letters were changed to DHFJ. In May 1945, ""Dollart"" was seized by the Allies at Copenhagen, Denmark. She was passed to the MoWT and renamed ""Empire Constancy"". Her port of registry was changed to London and she was placed under the management of Rose Line Ltd. The Code Letters GFXT and United Kingdom Official Number 180639 were allocatd. In 1947, ""Empire Constancy"" was"
"container port in the world in 1985, the Port was, as of 2004, the largest in the eastern United States and the third-largest in the country. Container goods typically arrive on container ships through The Narrows and the Kill Van Kull before entering Newark Bay, a shallow body of water that has been dredged to accommodate large ships (some ships enter Newark Bay via the Arthur Kill). The port facility consists of two main dredged slips and multiple loading cranes. Shipping containers are arrayed in large stacks visible from the New Jersey Turnpike before being loaded onto rail cars and"
"of the First Fleet to Botany Bay in June 1787, which consisted of 11 ships that departed from Portsmouth, England, on 13 May 1787 to found the penal colony that became the first European settlement in Australia. The Fleet consisted of two Royal Navy vessels, three store ships and six convict transports, carrying between 1,000 and 1,500 convicts, marines, seamen, civil officers and free people (accounts differ on the numbers), and a vast quantity of stores. On 3 June 1787, the fleet anchored at Santa Cruz at Tenerife. Here, fresh water, vegetables and meat were brought on board. Commander of"
"of Embarkation and French transport corps carried out sufficient repairs to the port for it to accommodate the first liberty ships a month after its capture. From then until the liberation of the port of Antwerp in November 1944, the daily landing of supplies and military equipment made Cherbourg the largest port in the world, twice that of the port of New York. Fuel arrived in Cherbourg along the PLUTO pipeline, while men and the equipment were routed from the port to the front, travelling by road (the ""Red Ball Express"") and rail (the ""Toot Sweet Express""). On 24 December"
"her under a charter arrangement in 1985, shortly before the hijacking. On 7 October 1985, four members of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) took control of the liner off Egypt as she was sailing from Alexandria to Port Said. Holding the passengers and crew hostage, they directed the vessel to sail to Tartus, Syria, and demanded the release of 50 Palestinians then in Israeli prisons. After being refused permission to dock at Tartus, the hijackers killed disabled Jewish-American passenger Leon Klinghoffer and then threw his body overboard. The ship then headed back towards Port Said, and after two days of"
"in 1949. Pierpoint Landing completed on Pier F in 1948, becoming a large sport fishing spot. Concerns regarding subsidence increased until Operation ""Big Squirt,"" a water injection program, halted any progression of sinking land in 1960. In 1971 Pier J expansion is complete with a 55-acre container and car import terminal, becoming Toyota's Western distribution center. In 1972 International Transportation Service completes a 52-acre container terminal on Pier J with a 1,200-foot wharf and two gantry cranes. Maersk Line Pacific completes on Pier G a 29-acre container terminal. Port of Long Beach is the largest container terminal in America. With"