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The Manchester Ship Canal tragedy that saw six men killed in horror explosion remembered

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Sign up to the MySalford newsletter and don't miss a thing happening in and around the city In the early hours of Tuesday, April 14, 1970, the smell of oil was wafting in the air from the waters of the Manchester Ship Canal.

Bernard Carroll, a 27-year-old ferryman from Partington, was transporting workers on the five minute journey across the canal via a 20 foot open boat at the time.

Concerned about the unpleasant smell, Bernard suspended his transport services while he informed the police. Upon investigation, he spotted a trail of oil in the waters near to another boat, named Bob’s Ferry, at the canal's crossing between Bob’s Lane in Cadishead and Lock Lane in Partington.

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