‘Brightly lit like a Christmas tree, the Herald passed us at 7:25 PM. Suddenly we saw the ferry swing to starboard and capsize. The Christmas tree went out. It looked as if the ferry was being swallowed up by the sea.’ It is a quote from helmsman Elias Van Maren of the dredger Sanderus in the night of 6 to 7 March 1987.
35 years after the Herald of Free Enterprise: ‘It wasn’t until the bodies were carried in that we realized the magnitude’ | Abroad
