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43 results found for '"Lifeboats"' in Keywords.
Our kind of town (1980)
- Genre
- Documentary; Interview
Our Kind of Town, presented by Keith Howell. This episode focuses on the London International Boat Show at Earls Court. Howell meets adventurer Kenneth Kerr, who attempted to row across the Atlantic Ocean...
Penlee lifeboat disaster - Crew and conditions (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker on the Penlee lifeboat disaster of 19/12/81, in which eight lifeboat men from Mousehole, Cornwall lost their lives trying to rescue another vessel. Speaker says there were four...
Penlee lifeboat disaster - New crew members already volunteering (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker on the Penlee lifeboat disaster of 19/12/81. He says tragedies like this are unusual - the last lifeboat disaster was in Fraserburgh, Scotland in 1970. Within hours of the tragedy,...
Penlee lifeboat disaster - Events leading up to disaster (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
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...
Penlee lifeboat disaster - John Prescott on maritime safety laws (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Labour MP, John Prescott following the Penlee lifeboat disaster of 19/12/81, on international law applying to stricken vessels carrying potentially polluting cargo. He says if a vessel is in the waters of a...
Penlee lifeboat disaster - Funding of RNLI (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker on the funding of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), following the Penlee lifeboat disaster of 19/12/81. He says the organisation needs £14 million a year and relies...
Penlee lifeboat disaster - Funeral of Nigel Brockman and Trevelyan Richards (1981)
- Genre
- Speech; Tribute
Speech at the funeral of Nigel Brockman, Second Engineer of the Solomon Browne, and Trevelyan Richards, Coxswain, lost in the Penlee lifeboat disaster of 19/12/81. Male speaker (minister?) not identified.
Penlee lifeboat disaster - Funerals of Trevelyan Richards and Nigel Brockman (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on the funerals of two of the Penlee lifeboatmen who died on 19/12/81. One was Trevelyan Richards; the other was Nigel Brockman, whose son had not been allowed to board the doomed vessel because...
Penlee lifeboat disaster - Del Johnson on men lost (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on the aftermath of the Penlee lifeboat disaster of 19/12/81, based around a telephone interview with Penlee lifeboat committee chairman Del Johnson who says the men who died will leave a big hole in...
Penlee lifeboat disaster - Appeal fund (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker on the huge amount of money being donated to the appeal fund for the victims of the Penlee lifeboat disaster (19/12/81). He says there is already about £700,000 in the fund and...