He is best known for presiding over the July 1987 inquiry into the deaths of 193 people in the Zeebrugge ferry disaster.
The second son of Ronald Sheen, FCA, Barry Sheen was educated at Haileybury College, also attending The Hill School in the United States for a year.
[1] 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.
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