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UK  From party to tragedy in minutes  By Sarah Bell BBC News
Archive report: Boat tragedy kills 51  More than 130 partygoers
were packed on to the Marchioness pleasure boat cruising along
the River Thames on a warm August evening in 1989.  As they
danced, the boat was hit by a 1,880 tonne dredger and sank
within minutes - 51 people were killed.  On the 20th anniversary
of the tragedy, one of the survivors and a bereaved mother
describe how their lives were changed that night.   Ward
Bingham, from Vancouver, Canada, was 23 when he lost 13 friends
in the Marchioness disaster.  It was a wonderful evening in
London. It always looks beautiful at night but from that vantage
point on the river you could see everything. I was outside, so
was able to see the accident happening. I was lucky, as it
allowed me to have an escape plan.  Ward Bingham Mr Bingham was
a shoe designer at the time of the accident  When we went
through the bridge, suddenly there was