Fascinating Horror

The Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster (2020x10)

Air date: May 22, 2020

At around 6:29pm on the 6th of March 1987 the MS Herald of Free Enterprise – an eight-deck car and passenger ferry – capsized just moments after leaving the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. The incident resulted in the deaths of 193 passengers and crew. It was the most deadly sinking of a British ship in peacetime in more than 50 years.