Disasters and Shipwrecks
Wednesday, January 4, 2023
Oil Tanker Disasters
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Since oil was first shipped across the seas there have been disasters that befell the ships that transported it, taking a thick, black liqu...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Mass Murder on the ferry Prins Carl
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Many people will have heard of the terrorist attack on the liner City of Poros in 1988 which left nine people dead, but who has heard of th...
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Fire in Shirley Towers
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In 2017 Britain was shocked by the images of the burning Grenfell Tower in London in which 72 people were killed, but the fires that have be...
Monday, October 3, 2022
Yorkshire coast fishing boat losses
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Bridlington is the lobster capital of Europe and has been home to a harbour of fishing vessels for as long as the town has existed, being th...
Sunday, September 4, 2022
The Nimrod Disasters
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Photo by Mike Freer - Touchdown-aviation The Hawker Siddeley Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft first came on the scene during the Cold War in ...
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Migrant Disasters - Shipwrecks, Lorries and cocklepickers
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Over the last ten years or so there has been a noticeable increase in the deaths of migrants in mass casualty disasters caused by those at t...
Thursday, July 7, 2022
Fire on the Sally Star
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It was the early hours of 25 th August 1994 and the roll-on-roll-off car ferry Sally Star was making her way from Dunkirk to Ramsgate with...
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