Ferry That Took 193 Lives Towed to Taiwan Scrap Yard
TAIPEI, Taiwan — The British ferry, Herald of Free Enterprise, which capsized off the Belgian coast last year killing 193 people aboard, has arrived at a scrap yard in the south Taiwan port of Kaohsiung, officials said Wednesday.
“The ferry was in a disastrous state. There’s only mud and garbage left inside,†said Wang Chin-yeh, an official of Chi Shun Hua Steel Co., a ship salvage company in Kaohsiung, where the ferry arrived Tuesday night after being towed on a 50-day, 7,582-nautical-mile journey from a Dutch port.
The Herald of Free Enterprise capsized off the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on March 6, 1987, in the worst peacetime disaster involving a British ship since the Titanic sank in 1912.
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