| Description |
1 online resource (6 min.) |
| Series |
Infamous places ; 27 |
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World history in video.
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| Summary |
At about 6:30 the night of of March 6, 1987, the unthinkable happened to the British car ferry, Herald of Free Enterprise. Having just left the Belgium port of Bruges, Zeebrugge, for Dover in England, she was only 19 inches from shore when she capsized, leading to the deaths of 193 passengers and crew. The 7-year-old ferry was a roll-on roll-off craft, which meant it had doors at both the bow and the stern, and it soon became apparent that through oversight or negligence she'd left the harbor with the bow door still open. Galloping Gertie is the nickname given to the first attempt to build a bridge to carry Washington State Route 16 across the Tacoma Narrows in Washington State. At 11 am November 7th, just four months after opening, a physical phenomenon known as mechanical resonance made the bridge swing violently from side to side before the concrete cracked and the bridge's central span plunged into the Narrows below. Amazingly there was no human loss of life in the incident, although there was one death, a cocker spaniel called Tubby, who was trapped in a car |
| Notes |
Previously released on DVD |
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Title from resource description page (viewed Sept. 1, 2011) |
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English |
| Subject |
Civil engineering.
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Ferries -- Accidents -- Belgium
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Civil engineering.
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Ferries -- Accidents.
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| SUBJECT |
Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Tacoma, Wash. : 1940) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90006216
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Zeebrugge (Belgium) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80098610
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Belgium.
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Belgium -- Zeebrugge.
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Washington (State) -- Tacoma -- Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940)
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary
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Documentary television programs.
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Nonfiction television programs.
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Documentary television programs.
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Nonfiction television programs.
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Documentaires télévisés.
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Émissions télévisées autres que de fiction.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Swain, Madeleine, narrator
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