Dispatches: Loss Of The Marchioness

Record ID: 121647
  • Title: Dispatches: Loss Of The Marchioness
  • Date: 8th December 1993
  • Summary: An account of the sinking of the `Marchioness' riverboat in 1989,which states that the evidence given at the original enquiry is at variance with that of witnesses then unheard but gathered for this programme - chiefly passengers on the pleasureboat `Hurlingham'. Interviews with members of the Marchioness Action Group,Transport Minister Steve Norris,and passengers and/or crew from the Marchioness,Bowbelle,Bowsprite and Hurlingham.
  • Description:A specially extended edition of DISPATCHES which tells the untold story of the sinking of the Marchioness pleasure cruiser in the River Thames in 1989. Second programme is a new version with details of fresh evidence which came to light during the inquest.
  • Broadcaster:Channel 4
  • Collection: Channel 4
  • Genre:Documentary and Factual
  • Producer:Unspecified
  • Programme Episode:Episode 1
  • Transmission Date:08/12/1993
  • Rights:On Request
  • Decade: 1990s
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