Word: brabazon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experts, who say that the open holding bays for cars and trucks make the ships very unstable if they are flooded. Before the Herald disaster, there had been six ferry accidents in the English Channel region in the past five years, causing ten deaths. But British Shipping Minister Lord Brabazon insisted that the "ferries have a very good safety record. There are more than 200 crossings every day with very, very few accidents." Cold comfort indeed for those aboard the doomed Herald...