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BACKGROUND INFORMATION

 

In 1999, Lord Justice Clarke chaired the Thames Safety Inquiry. The terms of reference of that Inquiry asked Lord Justice Clarke to advise as to:

"whether there is a case for a further investigation or inquiry in to the circumstances surrounding the MARCHIONESS disaster and its causes on 20th August 1989."

The chronology below was prepared in order to assist Lord Justice Clarke and was published as part of the Thames Safety Inquiry Report.  

It details the events that occurred during the period 20th August 1989 through to 18th August 1999, when the Deputy Prime Minister announced the Thames Safety Inquiry.

The following for the NSI hearings are available in Adobe Acrobat format for downloading. The Adobe® Acrobat Reader® can be freely downloaded here.

  NSI Part 1 – Chronology 78.04KB (79915 bytes)

Thames Safety Inquiry Chronology 182.56KB (186939 bytes)

The document above is available in Adobe Acrobat format for downloading. The Adobe® Acrobat Reader® can be freely downloaded here. Once you have downloaded and installed Adobe® Acrobat Reader® you can proceed to download the files by (right clicking over the file and choosing "SAVE TARGET AS" and choosing a folder on your local hard drive.

 

For a list of 'who is who' in the Non-Statutory Inquiry, please click    here