Memorial to The European Gateway
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Memorial to The European Gateway
Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 10 Jan 2020
Located in The Seafarers' Centre on the Port of Felixstowe it is in remembrance of the MS European Gateway, a roll-on roll-off (RORO) car and passenger ferry, which collided with MV Speedlink Vanguard and consequently capsized on a sandbank outside the harbour on 19th December 1982. Six people were killed in the capsizing. She was subsequently refloated and repaired and served the Greek Islands as Penelope, until 2013 when she was scrapped at the Port of Piraeus.
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Image Location
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1.324372