Just how many......

[Kapitan]

Ro Ro Ro ferrys have been lost in the last 25 years ?

off the top of my head i can name:

Herald of free enterprise 1987
El salam 98 2005
Estonia 1994
Scandinavian star 1994?

and the ro ro ro bit isnt a typo for those who want to pick holes it means ROLL ON ROLL OFF ROLL OVER :p

[STEED]

Ask Lloyds Registry of Shipping.

[Kapitan]

now theres an idea !

atleast you have some use here steed :P jk

[STEED]

STEED Stand up to take a bow, "Thank You"

[lesrae]

From http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...-ro-safety.htm (this goes back more than 25 years)

The first ro-ro ship to be lost at sea was the Princess Victoria, a rail ferry which sank on a voyage to Belfast in 1953 when heavy seas stove in the stern door: 133 lives were lost. At least 264 people died in 1966 when the Greek ferry Heraklion sank in heavy seas on a voyage to Piraeus. Although not a ro-ro, the ship did have a large car deck without subdivisional bulkheads. This deck flooded when the loading hatch was smashed by a vehicle which had broken loose. The cargo ro-ro Hero was lost in 1977, partly as a result of water entering through a leaking stern door. In September 1994 the passenger ro-ro Estonia was lost with more than 900 lives when the bow door was torn off by heavy seas. The car deck flooded and the ship capsized within a few minutes.
These accidents happened in heavy seas, but other ro-ros have been lost through water entering doors in port or sheltered waters. They include the Straitsman, which sank when the stern door was opened as the ship approached land, with the crew unaware that the door sill was below the waterline: and the Seaspeed Dora, which capsized in 1977 when a movement of cargo caused the ship to list sufficiently for water to enter through an open bunkering door. In the case of the Herald of Free Enterprise, water entered through the bow door which had been left open.
Ro-ro ships which have sunk rapidly as a result of a collision have included the Jolly Azzurro (1978), Collo (1980), Tollan (1980), Sloman Ranger (1980), Ems (1981), European Gateway (1983) and Mont Louis (1984). Among ships which have been lost following a shift of cargo are the Espresso Sardegna (1973), Zenobia (1980) and Mekhanik Tarasov (1982, in very bad weather).

[Kapitan]

Thanks lesrae

[Dowly]

I will remember the video from Estonia incident for the rest of my life. It was horrible when the rescue chopper flew over an turned over liferaft. It was full of water and dead people. Just horrible.

[joea]

Originally Posted by Dowly

I will remember the video from Estonia incident for the rest of my life. It was horrible when the rescue chopper flew over an turned over liferaft. It was full of water and dead people. Just horrible.

I recall seeing that on the news, awful and shocking. You over there were a lot closer and more affected obviously.