with the poignancy of poetry, the bbc‘s kate adie captured the unfolding horror.ent out. it was completely pitch—black dark. we could hear the inrush of water. brian gibbons was that lorry driver on his first ferry trip. he was the last to be rescued. with the screams, the shouts and everything else, and unfortunately some people did not make it. the reason i am talking to you today is, i think, people need to know what happened because of the 193 who did not make it. sorry. gets me a bit. today, in dover, three decades of memories and regrets were on the collective minds of 200 relatives and friends. peter martin. catherine mason. john millgate. ivor moat. christopher moy. the sheer number... it took six weeks for many relatives to learn their loved ones had died. agonising enough for adults, an eternity for children, like kim spooner who was eight, and who lost her aunt and uncle. oh, my goodness! i remember it so vividly, sitting in our front room, hearing something terrible had happened in belgium, and my mother saying, "i think billy and mary were on that shi