Zeebrugge disaster BBC news reports
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@Time71Team You're mistaken. I was one of the dealers who sold her. P&O planned to sell her for repair, but this ship was unique in appearance, everyone would recognise her. So it was sold for scrap. P&O never planned to repair her and return her to service for themselves.
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@TheSlapdown P and O were under the assumption that she could be repaired and could carry on sailing but when no buyer was found she was sold for scrap. Only an idiot could think that a boat on which nearly 200 people died could be repaired and people would want to travel on it.
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@Time71Team They never planned to relaunch her. She was in a terrible condition. Yes she was sold, to a scrap dealer who sold it to a scrap yard.
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@TheSlapdown They sold it after initially having the ridiculous idea of salvaging it and relaunching it. I would love to know what idiot thought of saving it after all those people had died on it.
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@shaolinfingajab I remember very clearly those tokens that were offered in the Sun. We had no way of getting to the ferry terminus so we didn`t go but i know the ship was packed with those who took up the offer.
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@shaolinfingajab sorry to hear that :[
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My brother had tickets to go with an offer from The Sun newspaper... Some of his friends from work died :(
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@stafford69 I was working for the brokers that sold the wreck to the breakers yard, P&O scrapped this ship immediately!
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Newflashes like this were a far better way of telling you what they knew at that moment in time and then you waited until the next news bulletin to hear what they'd gleaned rather than the modern method of suspending all programmes and watching as they drip feed you facts.
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@2:03 He says it was sailing from Holland. Thought it was from Belgium?
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"NEWS REPORT" always meant something really bad had happened...Scary biccies!
Scottmachin 3 years ago 15
this type of video capturing important events in history are fascinating. Just think if we had them for other events like the black death, the civil war etc...i hope they are being collected because they will be such an amazing historical source in the future
godsbrotherinlaw 2 years ago 11