"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"
"close to 50 freight vehicles, left the Belgian port of Zeebrugge for the English port of Dover. Soon after the ""Herald of Free Enterprise"" passed Zeebrugge's breakwater, water flooded into the ferry's lower car deck and destabilized it, causing it to sink in a matter of minutes. 193 lives were lost. The immediate cause of the accident was that the bow door remained wide open, allowing a great inrush of water as the vessel increased speed, while the fatigued assistant boatswain directly responsible for closing it lay asleep in his cabin. The public inquiry led by Justice Sheen revealed that"
"ferry capsized killing 193 people. Zeebrugge Zeebrugge (, from: ""Brugge aan zee"" meaning ""Bruges on Sea"", ) is a village on the coast of Belgium and a subdivision of Bruges, for which it is the modern port. Zeebrugge serves as both the international port of Bruges-Zeebrugge and a seafront resort with hotels, cafés, a marina and a beach. Located on the coast of the North Sea, its central location on the Belgian coast, short distance to Great Britain and close vicinity to densely populated industrialised cities make Zeebrugge a crossroads for traffic from all directions. An expressway to Bruges connects"
"lights in the wheelhouse. The ship left her berth in Zeebrugge inner harbour at 18:05 (GMT) with a crew of 80 and carrying 459 passengers, 81 cars, three buses and 47 trucks. She passed the outer mole at 18:24 (GMT) and capsized about four minutes later. When the ferry reached 90 seconds after leaving the harbour, water began to enter the car deck in large quantities. The resulting free surface effect destroyed her stability. In a matter of seconds, the ship began to list 30 degrees to port. The ship briefly righted herself before listing to port once more, this"
"19 December 1982. The incident involved the Townsend Thoresen, roll-on roll-off (RORO) car ferry ""European Gateway"" which was leaving Felixstowe for Zeebrugge when it was in collision with Train ferry ""Speedlink Vanguard"" approaching Harwich Harbour. The bulbous bow of the""Speedlink Vanguard"" struck the ""European Gateway"" amidship immediately causing the ship to list within a very short period of time and she quickly capsized to the point where half the starboard side of the vessel was above the water. Every Alarm bell and siren in the estuary was sounded and the Harwich Lifeboat ""John Fison"" was launched along with many other"
"system; one can also get to and from Zeebrugge by train or tram. It is Belgium's most important fishing port and the wholesale fish market located there is one of the largest in Europe. Aside from being a passenger terminal with ferries to the United Kingdom, the harbour serves as the central port for Europe's automotive industry, and it is important for the import, handling and storage of energy products, agriculture products and other general cargo. Zeebrugge has the largest LNG terminal complex in Europe. The harbour was the site of the Zeebrugge Raid on 23 April 1918, when the"
"the Netherlands and onto western Germany. At least 33 people were killed across Europe, with seven fatalities in the United Kingdom. Flights from all the London and Midlands airports were cancelled with many railway services also cancelled as a result of a combination of downed trees and debris on the lines, and damage to overhead power lines. The passenger ferry Pride of Portsmouth collided with HMS St Albans in Portsmouth Harbour as the ship was buffeted while turning across the winds. In the Netherlands, the storm left four people dead. Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport was closed, and damage was caused to"
"collapsed after Justice Turner directed the jury to acquit the company and the five most senior individual defendants. It did, however, set a precedent that corporate manslaughter is legally admissible in English courts. The disaster was one of a number that influenced thinking leading to the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998. A salvage operation, conducted by Dutch company Smit-Tak Towage and Salvage (part of Smit International), was embarked upon almost immediately to refloat the ship. The operation was successfully concluded in late April 1987, allowing the remaining bodies trapped underwater to be removed. The ship was towed to Zeebrugge, and"
"metres high and ferries in the nearby port of Sassnitz had been cancelled. Prior to its sinking, ""Jan Heweliusz"" had been involved in 28 incidents, including collisions with fishing boats, listing, engine failure, and a fire in 1986. It had ballast problems and had also damaged its hull in Ystad during docking, but this was not reported to the port authorities and only makeshift repairs were made. It sailed two hours late, carrying 10 railway carriages from five European countries. The Marine Chamber of Appeals in Gdynia blamed the accident on the poor technical condition of the ship, with the"
"1987 Shanghai stampede On December 10, 1987, a stampede occurred at the Lujiazui ferry terminal in Shanghai, China. The main cause for the stampede was a severe fog that continued for hours and limited visibility to only 30 meters. This caused the ferry service to be suspended, leading to the station gathering lots of people who were anxious to leave; as soon as the ferry service was restored the crowd hurried to board the ferry, causing a stampede. The accident led to 17 (some say 66) deaths, 2 seriously injured and over 70 slightly injured. There were no bridges or"
"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"
"the pilot of the [parliamentary] Bill, he has not got his bow doors open"". He apologised for the remark. In 2007 Belgian singer Jonathan Vandenbroeck, more commonly known as Milow, released a song to mark the 20th anniversary of the tragedy. Titled ""Herald of Free Enterprise"", the song echoes the tragic events of the evening and was featured on his 2009 album ""Milow"". The disaster was the subject of an episode from Series 2 of ""Seconds From Disaster"". On 1 July 2014, The History Press released a book called ""Ninety Seconds At Zeebrugge: The Herald of Free Enterprise Story"", telling"
"2015 under the name ""Sher"". ""Pride of Free Enterprise "" was built by Schichau Unterweser AG for European Ferries services between Dover and Calais, initially entering service with them in 1980. In 1987 European Ferries was purchased by P&O European Ferries; in the same year her sister ship, ""Herald of Free Enterprise"" capsized just outside Zeebrugge. As a result of these two events, ""Pride of Free Enterprise"" was renamed ""Pride of Bruges"" under a rebranding exercise undertaken by P&O following the bad publicity of the ""Herald of Free Enterprise"" disaster. In 1998 P&O European Ferries merged its Short sea routes"
"On 12 July 1866 a paddle steamer the , on its way to Brisbane from Newcastle carrying 60 passengers, was caught in a storm as it made its way out of the harbour. 60 lives were lost with only one survivor, Frederick Hedges, who was plucked from the water by the sole survivor of the Dunbar that had sunk in Sydney Harbour. The most tragic maritime accident of the 20th century in Newcastle occurred on 9 August 1934 when the Stockton-bound ferry ""Bluebell"" collided with the coastal freighter, ""Waraneen"", and sank in the middle of the Hunter River. The Bluebell"
"correctly. The design of ""Herald of Free Enterprise"" was also found to be a contributory cause of the sinking. Unlike other ships, which are subdivided into watertight compartments, the vehicle decks of RORO vessels are normally contiguous: any flooding on these decks would allow the water to flow the length of the ship. This issue had been identified as early as 1980, following the losses of and in June and November 1977 respectively. The need to adjust the ship's bow trim to use the port facilities at Zeebrugge and failure to readjust before departure was another factor in the sinking."
"whom died later in hospital. Ships rescued 34 and helicopters 104; the ferries played a much smaller part than the planners had intended because it was too dangerous to launch their man-overboard (MOB) boats or lifeboats. The accident claimed 852 lives (501 Swedes, 285 Estonians, 17 Latvians, 10 Finns and 44 people of other nationalities: 1 from each of Belarus, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Ukraine and the United Kingdom, 2 from Morocco, 3 from Lithuania, 5 from Denmark, 6 from Norway, 10 from Germany, 11 from Russia). Most died by drowning and hypothermia, as the water temperature was 10–11"
"The German government later paid compensation for the sinking of ""Katwijk"". It was early June before ""UB-10"" sank her next ship. The Belgian ship ""Menapier"", carrying a load of iron ore from Algiers for Middlesbrough, was torpedoed and sunk off North Foreland by Steinbrinck on the 7th. Of the 23 persons on board the 1,886-ton ship, only 6 were saved. ""Menapier""s master, his wife, and six-year-old daughter, the first mate, the pilot, and 12 other crewmen perished. After ""UB-10""s sister boat pioneered a route through British anti-submarine nets and mines in the Straits of Dover on 21 and 22 June,"
"remained in service until 1886. Charles Hodge was selected as Coxswain after the retirement of William Rockliffe. December 1886 saw the worst ever lifeboat disaster in British history, the Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster or the Mexico Disaster. It was the last call out of the "" Eliza Fernley"" and proved to be one of the most tragic lifeboat disasters ever known. The German barque ""Mexico"", on her way to South America got into difficulty during a fierce storm and went aground at Ainsdale. An immense wave crashed down onto the open boat filling and sinking her almost immediately."
"MS Jan Heweliusz MS ""Jan Heweliusz"" was a Polish ferry named after astronomer Johannes Hevelius () that served on the route Ystad-Świnoujście. It was built in Norway in 1977 and was owned by PLO (Polish Oceanliners) and operated by its daughter company PLO EuroAfrica. In the early hours of January 14th 1993 it capsized and sank in 27 metres of water off Cape Arcona on the coast of Rügen in the Baltic Sea while sailing toward Ystad with 64 passengers and crew. The accident claimed the lives of 20 crewmen and 35 passengers. 10 bodies were never found. 9 people"
"from the ""Westerdam"" on a Holland America Line sightseeing excursion over southeastern Alaska crashed into the face of a granite cliff near Ella Lake, 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Ketchikan, killing all nine people on board. The first ""Westerdam"" sailed for Holland America Line from 1946 to 1965. It was a combined cargo/passenger ship with accommodations for 143 first-class passengers. While being constructed during World War II, this ship was sunk three times before making its maiden voyage. It was bombed and sunk by Allied forces on 27 August 1942 in the shipyard in Rotterdam. The Germans raised the"
"by Catharina Ingleman-Sundberg, who also completed a catalogue of all the finds from the site. Zeewijk The Zeewijk (or Zeewyk) was an 18th-century East Indiaman of the Dutch East India Company (""Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie"", VOC) that was shipwrecked at the Houtman Abrolhos, off the coast of Western Australia, on 9 June 1727. The survivors built a second ship, the Sloepie, enabling 82 out of the initial crew of 208 to reach their initial destination of Batavia on 30 April 1728. Since the 19th century many objects were found near the wreck site, which are now in the Western Australian Museum."
"passengers were carried. By 1974, demand for capacity was greater than could be supplied, and two vastly bigger vessels, and , which were at that time the largest ferries in the world, were introduced to the route. The two vessels and Norwave were transferred to a new route, Hull–Zeebrugge, operating a nightly service departing 30 minutes after the Rotterdam service sailed. The two routes remained unchanged, with the exception of the Ministry of Defence chartering for service with the British Task Force to the Falkland Islands in 1982. The two routes were becoming increasingly popular, and in 1987 the larger"
"danger of sinking. On the upper deck, passengers waiting to exit turned and ran in panic as the ferry struck the pier. Following the crash, they could see none of the carnage immediately below them. No announcements were made, and the upper-deck crowd waited in ignorance for twenty minutes, until the vessel was turned around and finally docked at the other end. Even before it reached its berth, rescue workers arrived on shore to assist with the search for survivors. Eleven people were killed and 71 others injured in the accident. All the fatalities and most of the injuries were"
"25.2 metres wide and a gross tonnage of 26,916 gross tons. In March 2000 ""Norstar"" suffered a major engine fire and upon arrival in Zeebrugge was decommissioned. Leaving ""Norland"" to operate the service alone. Due to this the new ferries ""Pride of Hull"" and ""Pride of Rotterdam"" swapped names so that ""Pride of Rotterdam"" could enter service first with Dutch crew that were on ""Norstar"". ""Norstar"" and sister ship ""Norland"" were sold to SNAV in Italy and sailing between Naples and Palermo as ""SNAV Campania"". In 1987, ""Norstar"" was used for filming The Beiderbecke Tapes. ""Norstar"" and her sister ship,"
"up the vessels of the Flanders Flotilla in the Zeebrugge Raid. In the raid, the British succeeded in sinking two obsolete cruisers, and , in the narrowest part of the canal. British admiral Roger Keyes, who had planned the raid, believed that the Flanders Flotilla ships were bottled up for a long period of time. However, the following day, after the Germans had removed two piers, ""UB-16""—under ""Oblt."" Vicco von der Lühe, her newest commander—made the first sortie from Zeebrugge after the raid. ""UB-16"" departed Zeebrugge for what would be the final time on 6 May 1918 for a patrol"
"not a factor. Alexander L. Kielland (platform) Alexander L. Kielland was a Norwegian semi-submersible drilling rig that capsized while working in the Ekofisk oil field in March 1980, killing 123 people. It was a platform of the ""Pentagone"" series. The capsize was the worst disaster in Norwegian waters since World War II. The rig, located approximately 320 km east of Dundee, Scotland, was owned by the Stavanger Drilling Company of Norway and was on hire to the U.S. company Phillips Petroleum at the time of the disaster. The rig was named after the Norwegian writer Alexander Lange Kielland. The rig"
"at . She could carry 35 railway wagons and twelve passengers. ""Suffolk Ferry"" was the first diesel powered ship built for the London and North Eastern Railway. Registered at Harwich, she usually operated on the Harwich – Zeebrugge route, the crossing taking nine hours. ""Suffolk Ferry"" entered service in August 1947. With the nationalisation of the railways in the United Kingdom in 1948, ownership of ""Suffolk Ferry"" passed to the British Transport Commission. On 2 January 1956, the Liberian tanker ""Melody"" ran aground off Vlissingen, Zeeland, Netherlands. ""Suffolk Ferry"" was one of three vessels which went to the assistance of"
"scene as doctors and nurses battled to revive children pulled from the submerged bus. Police said 39 students drowned in the bus and two died later in hospital. Children travelling in another bus said some students trapped on the upper deck managed to break windows and swim to safety. The driver, Willem Horne, could not remember what had happened and was acquitted. The following children lost their lives in the disaster: Westdene dam disaster The Westdene dam disaster was a bus accident that took place in Westdene, near Johannesburg, South Africa, on 27 March 1985. The driver of a double-decker"
"for the trains, trams, and buses of the HHA and the ferries of the HADAG. In the 1950s, the HADAG operated a ferry to England and to the islands Heligoland and Sylt. In 1966, the last steam ferries were taken out of service. In 1982, HADAG closed the ferry line from Landungsbrücken to the Heligoland island, and started a line from Cuxhaven, with a combined fare with Deutsche Bundesbahn, in 1983. Until 1983, the HADAG owned the cruise ship MS Astor. The HADAG runs public transport ferries and pleasure boats on the rivers Elbe and Alster. The public transport is"
"for their part in the tragedy. 2000 Dover incident On 18 June 2000, just before midnight, 58 dead bodies were found in a lorry in the port town of Dover, England. Two people were found alive but injured and taken to a hospital. The Dutch lorry came from a ferry that had arrived from Zeebrugge in Belgium. It was determined that the deceased were immigrants, and likely died of asphyxiation, though carbon monoxide poisoning was not ruled out. The 60 immigrants were trapped in the container for more than 18 hours, when the outside temperature reached 32 °C (90 °F)."
"only people able to maintain contact from affected areas with the outside world. The Zeeland dikes were breached in 67 locations. Large parts of South Holland, Zeeland and North Brabant were inundated. In North Holland only one polder was flooded. The most extensive flooding occurred on the islands of Schouwen-Duiveland, Tholen, Sint Philipsland, Goeree-Overflakkee, the Hoeksche Waard, Voorne-Putten and Alblasserwaard. Parts of the islands of Zuid-Beveland, Noord-Beveland, IJsselmonde, Pernis, Rozenburg, Walcheren and Land van Altena were flooded, as well as parts of the areas around Willemstad, Nieuw-Vossemeer and parts of Zeelandic Flanders. The highest death tolls were recorded on the"
"early hours of 14 December 2002, MV Tricolor (ex Nosac Sun, built in 1987) was sailing from Zeebrugge, Belgium to Southampton, U.K., with a load of nearly 2871 brand new BMW, Volvo and SAAB automobiles. She collided in the English Channel with mv Kariba, a 1982 Bahamian-flagged container ship. Kariba was able to continue on, but Tricolor sank and required salvage by wreck cutting. No casualties occurred. Wilh. Wilhelmsen Wilh. Wilhelmsen Holding ASA (WWH) is a global maritime industry group, headquartered in Lysaker, Norway. The group employs more than 21,000 people and has operations in 75 nations. The company is"