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On Monday 6th March the 193 victims of the "Herald of Free Enterprise" disaster will be remembered in Zeebrugge, Belgium.

One day before, Sunday 5th March the City of Bruges are holding a Herald of Free Enterprise commemorative ceremony in Zeebrugge in honour of the victims.

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 modern 8-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.

This incident caused the highest death-count of any peacetime maritime disaster involving a British ship since the sinking of HMY Iolaire on 1 January 1919 near Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, where at least 205 perished of the 280 aboard.

Our audiovisual and editorial production team is available to assist your coverage in Zeebrugge, Belgium.

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- Cameraman with/without sound engineer
- On site editing
- Mobile upload

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