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    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...
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    sister ships were MS Pride of Free Enterprise and MS Herald of Free Enterprise. Spirit of Free Enterprise operated reliably and successfully on Townsend's...
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    P&O (category Shipping companies of England)
    Pride of Hampshire between Portsmouth and Cherbourg. On 6 March 1987, the roll on/roll off ferry, Herald of Free Enterprise, capsized off the coast of Zeebrugge...
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  • International Safety Management Code (category Law of the sea)
    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...
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  • March 1987 the ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise had capsized, killing 193 passengers and crew. All proceeds from sales of the single were donated to...
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    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...
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  • and 1998 MS Free Enterprise VIII, a ferry in service with European Ferries & P&O Ferries between 1974 and 1993 MS Herald of Free Enterprise, a ferry in...
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    open. The Herald of Free Enterprise was a passenger ship bound for the Port of Dover in Kent. Most of the occupants had taken advantage of a newspaper...
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  • committing many offences. The Court of Appeal confirmed in one of the cases following the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster that a company can, in principle...
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  • Survivor guilt (category Symptoms and signs of mental disorders)
    of the capsizing of the MS Herald of Free Enterprise which killed 193 of the 459 passengers. His studies showed that 60 percent of the survivors suffered...
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  • Sheen, Mr Justice (1987), mv Herald of Free Enterprise: Report of Court No. 8074 Formal Investigation (PDF), Crown Department of Transport, ISBN 0-11-550828-7...
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    ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes off Zeebrugge harbor in Belgium; 193 people die. March 7 – 1987 Lieyu massacre: The Republic of China Army...
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  • European Ferries (category Defunct shipping companies of the United Kingdom)
    1987, the Townsend Thoresen branded roll on/roll off car ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized just outside Zeebrugge's harbour about 25 minutes after...
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    April 1968), MS Herald of Free Enterprise (Zeebrugge, Belgium, March 1987), and MS Estonia (Baltic Sea, September 1994). In the case of the RORO ferry...
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  • P&O European Ferries (category Defunct shipping companies of the United Kingdom)
    Thoresen), a division of P&O Ferries, was a ferry company which operated in the English Channel from 1987 after the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster, when...
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  • factors are critical antecedents to accidents such as MV Prestige, Herald of Free Enterprise, MS Sleipner, MS Estonia, Bow Mariner and Hoegh Osaka as well...
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    (as in the partial sinking of MS Herald of Free Enterprise where the doors were accidentally left open, and as in one of the largest peacetime maritime...
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    distal cause) which is usually thought of as the "real" reason something occurred. The concept is used in many fields of research and analysis, including data...
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  • to analyze the capsizing of the Herald of Free Enterprise. Junction patterns can be used to describe the graph structure of Bayesian networks. Three possible...
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    Gateway has three sister ships: European Enterprise European Trader European Clearway MS Herald of Free Enterprise - Another ferry owned by Townsend Thoresen...
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    website The salvage of the Herald of Free Enterprise, March 6, 1987 on YouTube German website with a time-lapse video of the parbuckling of the Costa Concordia...
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    capsizes, most notably the MS Herald of Free Enterprise and the MS Estonia. There is also a similar consideration in the movement of the metacentre forward and...
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    MS Free Enterprise (I) was a cross-Channel ferry operated by Townsend Brothers and later Townsend Thoresen between 1962 and 1980. She was their first...
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    countermeasures vessel of the British Royal Navy. In March 1987, Hurworth was visiting Ostend when the cross channel ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized leaving...
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  • P&O Ferries (category Ferry companies of Belgium)
    trading as Townsend Thoresen. Following the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster in March 1987, the operations of Townsend Thoresen were renamed P&O European...
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    MS Free Enterprise II was a cross-Channel ferry operated by Townsend Thoresen between 1965 and 1982. The ship features prominently in the comedy film...
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    Later, in 1987, Zeebrugge's harbour was the scene of disaster when the MS Herald of Free Enterprise passenger ferry capsized, having set sail with her...
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    of the ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise, which killed 193 people. Among the featured singers was Woodward, who sang with Nick Kamen. In the wake of...
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  • 323–326 deaths MV George Prince (20 October 1976) 78 deaths MS Herald of Free Enterprise – (6 March 1987) 193 deaths MV Doña Paz – (20 December 1987) 4...
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    lower cannon deck had too low free-board for good seaworthiness. Poor design allowed the ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise to put to sea with open roll-on/roll-off...
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