Word: thoresen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...port. But surviving passengers did not report feeling any sudden impact. Whatever happened, the bow doors of the cavernous vehicle deck, which was holding 88 cars and 36 trucks, suddenly swung open. The car deck flooded, causing the vessel to tip over. Peter Ford, managing director at Townsend Thoresen, the British company that owns the Herald of Free Enterprise, acknowledged that "somehow the doors burst open and the water rushed...
Raymond Nossent, a spokesman for Townsend Thoresen, the ferry's owners, said divers were still finding survivors in air pockets inside the ship more than six hours after the accident...