Penlee lifeboat disaster - Events leading up to disaster
- Title
- Penlee lifeboat disaster - Events leading up to disaster
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- Dec 1981
- Year of production
- 1981
- Play audio
- To listen to the audio files, please log in.
- Duration
- 00:02:07
- Description
- Unidentified male speaker on the events leading up to the Penlee lifeboat disaster of 19/12/81. He says the stricken vessel Union Star may have initially refused assistance from a salvage tug before the lifeboat Solomon Browne was sent out to assist. Female interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- None Identified
- Keywords
- Accidents; Cornwall; Boats; Lifeboats; Seaborne disasters; Ships; Maritime rescue; Ship masters; Lifeboat services; Mousehole; Penlee; Lifeboat crew members; Union Star; Solomon Browne; Charles Greenhaugh; Kevin Smith; William Trevelyan Richards; James Madron; Nigel Brockman; John Blewett; Barrie Torrie; Gary Wallis
The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.
How to cite this record
LBC/IRN, "Penlee lifeboat disaster - Events leading up to disaster". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0027300343003 (Accessed 17 May 2025)