Penlee lifeboat disaster - Crew and conditions

Title

Penlee lifeboat disaster - Crew and conditions

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Dec 1981

Year of production

1981

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Duration

00:03:18

Description

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 fishermen on the crew, a seafarer, a post office engineer, a fish salesman and an hotelier. He says it is very unusual for a lifeboat of this type to sink. The lifeboat coxswain had refused to let the son of one of the crew aboard because he did not want to risk the lives of two members of one family. Male interviewer not identified.

Contributors

None Identified

Keywords

Accidents; Cornwall; Boats; Lifeboats; Seaborne disasters; Ships; Maritime rescue; 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

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