Results
26 results found for '"Union Star"' in Keywords.
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...
Penlee lifeboat disaster - Fishermen’s Appeal (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker on the Fishermen’s Appeal for the families of the eight men lost in the Penlee lifeboat disaster (19/12/81). The appeal is separate from the disaster appeal based in Penzance. It...