Bantry hosts memorial service for Betelgeuse victims

A memorial service is taking place in Co Cork to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1979 Betelgeuse disaster.

Bantry hosts memorial service for Betelgeuse victims
Thu, 08 Jan, 2004 - 10:54

A memorial service is taking place in Co Cork to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1979 Betelgeuse disaster.

Fifty-one people died when the French oil tanker Betelgeuse exploded and sank in Bantry Bay on January 8, 1979.

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