The World - News from July 30, 1987
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An Admiralty Court judge in London ordered the British ferry company Townsend Thoresen Ltd. to pay $640,000 in legal costs for the official inquiry into a ferry disaster that killed at least 188 people last March 6. Judge Barry Sheen ordered the company to pay $560,000 to the Department of Transport, which conducted the investigation, and $80,000 to the National Union of Seaman, which represented surviving crew members and relatives. The ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized shortly after leaving the Belgian port of Zeebrugge with its bow doors open.
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