Shortly after midnight on September 14, 1994, foot passengers at the then-busy ferry port at Ramsgate were patiently awaiting instruction to board their vessel. Within the hour, a number would be dead or seriously injured. Some 400 people were travelling on the early hours service from the Thanet port to Ostend in Belgium – a regular and popular route during the heyday of the ferry industry in the county. While cars, coaches and lorries were loaded onto the Prins Filip – operated by Sally Line but under the insignia of Belgium firm Oostende Lines – foot passengers boarded by traversing a narro…
