Sir Barry Cross Sheen (31 August 1918 – 25 October 2005) was a British judge who served as

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Judge of the High Court from 1978 to 1993. He is best known for presiding over the July 1987 inquiry into the deaths of 193 people in the

Zeebrugge ferry disaster MS ''Herald of Free Enterprise'' was a roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ferry which capsized moments after leaving the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on the night of 6 March 1987, killing 193 passengers and crew. The eight-deck car and passenger ferry was ow ...

Early life

The second son of Ronald Sheen, FCA, Barry Sheen was educated at

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, also attending

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in the

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for a year. He began to read Law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, but his studies were interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War. He joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and was first lieutenant of the corvette ''HMS Aubretia'' when she captured the German submarine U-110, with her cypher books and Enigma machine, in 1941. In 1943, he was given command of the PCE-842-class patrol craft HMS ''Kilkenzie''.

References

"Sir Barry Sheen—Judge whose verdict on the Zeebrugge ferry disaster blamed captain, first officer and owners of the ''Herald of Free Enterprise''" (''The Times'', October 27, 2005)
20th-century English judges People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College The Hill School alumni Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge 1918 births 2005 deaths Queen's Bench Division judges Place of birth missing Place of death missing Knights Bachelor Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II English King's Counsel 20th-century King's Counsel British expatriates in the United States {{UK-law-bio-stub