The "Herald of Free Enterprise" RORO car ferry was

reported to have ben towed to Taiwan to be scrapped.?

12.12.1979: Herald of Free Enterprise launched.
5.1980: Delivered to Townsend Car Ferries Limited, Dover.
29.5.1980: Dover/Calais.
10.7.1980: Crossed between Dover/Calais in a record breaking 52 minutes and 53 seconds.
6.3.1987: Departed Zeebrugge at 19:00 with 573 passengers on board. Approximately 30 minutes
after setting sail, suffered catastrophic capsizing, resting on shallow a sea bed, two thirds
submerged.
7.4.1987: Dutch salvage contractor, Smit-Tak, began work to raise the wreck.
24.4.1987: Towed to Zeebrugge.

14.5.1987: Removed to Vlissingen, Holland.

30.9.1987: Sold to Compania Naviera S. A. Kingstown, Saint Vincent. Renamed Flushing Range.
5.10.1987: Towed in the company of Gaelic Ferry en route to ship breakers in Taiwan.
27.12.1987: Tow lost at position 34.46S, 24.39E off Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
2.1.1988: Tow resumed.
22.3.1988: Finally arrived in Taiwan for scrapping.
http://www.ferryfantastic.webs.com/spiri...
Honestly, I can't imagine why anyone would tow a ship half-way around the world, just to scrap it. It
is certainly possible that it was put into service in SE Asia. Maybe Phillipines or Indonesia would be
a good place to start. I'll check around some more.
"Right, as far as I can tell, the Herald was towed to Kaohsiung in Taiwan for scrapping in March
1988. That is, according to one Dutch website, anyway."
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/dis...
"Once the ship-breaking capital of the world, the announcement had just been made at the time of
this photo (March 1987) that the scrap yards were to be closed to make way of expansion of
Kaohsiung port." http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/phot...
"In 1989, due to heavy container loading volumes, construction on Container Terminal No. 5 was

begun, with work completed in 1990."

You might also be interested in the ending of this story:
http://www.doverferryphotos.co.uk/pastandpresent/gaelic.htm

Being as how it was refloated, renamed, and pressed into

service for awhile, I have a doubt about it being scrapped.
Why scrap a fully-functional ship? I have found no records to
confirm the end result, one way or the other. However, IF it
is still in service somewhere, one would think that a photo of
it should have shown up within the pat 12 years.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=2011010609
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