TonyBurns

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I remember this very well, I was on exercise in Belgium at the time, some of our radio kit was based at Zeebrugge, only due to a leave ban did several people I knew, did not board that ferry, I was on the receiving end of the flash message saying the ferry had sunk, very scary!
R.I.P the 193 who lost their lives

Where were you and what do you remember?

Tony

Scooby Roo

Was in a pub just about to go and see Aliens. We missed the first hour watching the box.

Tragic

SiPie

I was on the sister ship 'spirit of free enterprise' at the same time, as part of a rugby tour to Paris and will never forget the panic it caused the teams families back home, whilst we were unaware of what was unfolding.

Tragic loss of life caused by sheer negligence

SwissTony

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We used to go skiing years ago and used to drive down from Newcastle to Felixstowe and get the ferry across to Zeebrugge and then across to switzerland. The Ferry we used to get was the Herald of Free Enterprise.

Scary thought

Terrible lose of lives and the result of a small lapse of concentration

GC8

The Pride and the Spirit are still running. They were promptly renamed, as was TT and theyre now renamed again and chugging away in places hwere ferries make you nervous anyway.

It was negligence, but ferries are different now as a result.

DJ Dunk

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Friend of mine lost his dad and younger brother on there

Edit: Just found the full list . . . http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonli...rticleid=31212

His dad was 32 and brother just 7

SirFozzalot

I remember it well. I was pretty young when it happened and it had quite an effect on me at the time.

I still have the record that was produced at the time somewhere.

J4CKO

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I was 16, was at a party a girl from school was throwing, cant remember much but can remember my dad picking me up and telling me about it, I remember being more upset at a young ladies continued resistance to my advances at the time.

urban

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I only remember the joke that was doing the rounds back then about Lionel Richie and dancing on the ceiling playing as it went down.

hodgy0_2

a school friend of my wife lost her older sister

EOEUMC

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My nan's ex husbands son, daughter-in-law and grandson was on the ferry. The grandson and daughter-in-law survived but the son was one of the last to be found of the wreckage. Apparently they only knew it was him because of the jewellery he was wearing

Chip

I was on the ferry just 7 days before it went down with my Dad and 2 brothers on a weekend break. Very shocked at the time at what happened.

Chip

mart360

Remember getting the lifeboats in at work to refurb and sell on,

We stripped all the nameplates & refurbed the interiors prior to sending on to

new owners. Seemed strange at the time, given the circumstances


Mart

dirtybarry

bloody hell was it 25 yrs ago RIP

Steve T

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I was a Merchant seaman for 21 years and I can remember we had just got back from Australia, Zeebrugge being our first port of call. I remember going past the ship which was lying on its side only a day after it happened. Still got the image in my head. Steve.

Paulo P

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I was only 11 at the time and I rememer it well but when I did my apprenticeship I was talking to one of the service engineers and he was on there! He was supposed to have been on the ferry before that IIRC but missed it so he ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time. He reflected back on it and remembered people clambering over each other to get out but from the faces he saw he doesn't know who lived and who didn't

RIP to all the families involved.