A candle-lit tribute will take place in Cornwall to mark the 40th anniversary of the Penlee lifeboat disaster ... lose their lives on 19 December 1981. The manager of the memorial hall, Tamsin ...

A former lifeboat station that closed after losing eight crew members in a disaster 40 years ago is opening to the public. The Penlee station ... cargo ship in December 1981 - the eight crew ...

A moving documentary made to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Penlee Lifeboat Disaster on 19 December 1981. The eight-man crew of the RNLB Solomon Browne, the lifeboat from the ...

On this very day, back in 1981, the worst maritime tragedy in living memory struck the small village ... which will never be forgotten". On the anniversary of the Penlee lifeboat disaster we recount ...

"You know, down here we obviously all remember the Penlee Lifeboat disaster, and so there is that ... into hurricane force winds on 19 December 1981 after the cargo ship Union Star was in danger ...