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    The Penlee lifeboat disaster occurred on 19 December 1981 off the coast of Cornwall, England. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat Solomon...
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    Penlee Lifeboat Station is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) search and rescue operations for Mount's Bay in Cornwall, United Kingdom...
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  • surfboat broke her bow in rough seas and sank. Penlee lifeboat disaster Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster The Surfboats, The Mayor and Charter Trustees...
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    launching point of the Penlee lifeboat, which was lost in the disaster of 1981. In 1883, Mr J Runnalls employed seventy people at the Penlee quarries and stone-mills...
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  • named another train the "Solomon Browne", after the lifeboat and crew lost in the Penlee lifeboat disaster. On September 11, 2019, President Donald Trump announced...
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  • L. James. Trevelyan Richards, coxswain of the RNLI lifeboat during the Penlee lifeboat disaster Trevelyan baronets Trevelyan College, Durham, England...
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  • Lifeboat Heritage. Twelveheads Press. p. 49. ISBN 0-906294-43-6. Cameron 2009, p. 256. Kipling & Kipling 2006, p. 131. Campey, Rachael (2017). Penlee...
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    (2008) "Crimson Dawn" (2008) "Solomon Brown" (2008) about the Penlee lifeboat disaster "Hearts & Minds" (2010) "Tiny World" (2010) "Stepping Over You"...
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    The Penlee lifeboat disaster: While attempting to rescue those on board the Union Star off the coast of South-West Cornwall (England), the lifeboat Solomon...
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    first piece for mainstream news journalism was coverage of the Penlee lifeboat disaster in December 1981, while a trainee on the Plymouth-based Sunday...
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  • was to close its factory in Tuam, County Galway. 19 December – Penlee lifeboat disaster: The Arklow-bound, Dublin-registered Union Star was lost on its...
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  • has the support of up to 50% of the electorate. 20 December – Penlee lifeboat disaster: The crew of the MV Union Star and the life-boat Solomon Browne...
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  • DeKalb County, Missouri, M.V. Union Star lost 19 December 1981, see Penlee lifeboat disaster This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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    Corin, John; Farr, Grahame (1983). Penlee Lifeboat. Penzance: Penlee & Penzance Branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. pp. 120. ISBN 0-9508611-0-3...
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    14, Lifeboat Eliza Adams. ISBN 0 7524 3875 1 "Station history | RNLI". "Mumbles Lifeboat - History". Retrieved 9 May 2014. see: "Lifeboat Disaster at Yarmouth:...
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  • Castle Penhallam Penjerrick Garden Penlee House, Penzance, Cornwall Penlee Lifeboat Station Penlee lifeboat disaster Penna (surname) Penryn (UK Parliament...
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    catastrophes" (PDF). Swiss Re. Retrieved 29 October 2015. "The Tay Bridge Disaster". Retrieved 3 September 2007. Hardlng, Charles (6 July 2007). "The great...
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    Devon Early Cornish Texts Boscastle flood of 2004 Penlee lifeboat disaster (1981) Sikorsky S-61 disaster 1983 Torrey Canyon oil spill List of shipwrecks...
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    filed to revoke his citizenship, he was killed by a train. In the Penlee lifeboat disaster, 16 people died in the worst British sea accident since 1946. The...
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  • Brass Band Championships. In May 2011 Dobson's work Penlee (based on the Penlee lifeboat disaster) was voted in at number 106 in the Classic FM Hall of...
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    Booker Prize. 1981: Television South West becomes ITV franchise; Penlee lifeboat disaster 1983: William Golding wins Nobel Prize for Literature; 1983 British...
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  • Corin, John; Farr, Grahame (1983). Penlee Lifeboat. Penzance: Penlee & Penzance Branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. pp. 120. ISBN 0-9508611-0-3...
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    List of shipwrecks of England (category Lists of disasters in the United Kingdom)
    mini-bulk carrier that ran aground near Mousehole. It caused the Penlee lifeboat disaster. SV Carl  German Empire 7 October 1917 The SV Carl was impounded...
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  • thirteen were saved, rescued by the crew of the Solomon Browne of Penlee Lifeboat Station and the crew of a Westland Whirlwind from RNAS Culdrose, in...
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    [better source needed] Although a lifeboat had been available in Mount's Bay for many years, a new lifeboat station at Penlee Point, on the outskirts of the...
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    power station, causing a shut-down for weeks after the storm. Penlee lifeboat disaster -a storm 6 days later, on 19 December 1981 Great Storm of 1987...
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  • "Solomon Browne" for example, another key track, is about the Penlee lifeboat disaster in 1981 in which 16 people lost their lives. In an interview for...
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    Ellen Southard (category Royal National Lifeboat Institution)
    Secretary of the Treasury page Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster Penlee lifeboat disaster Other shareholders were T.J. Southard himself (5⁄16)...
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  • cabin attendant, were not recovered. The Seaforth Clansman and the Penlee lifeboat RNLB Mabel Alice brought the wreckage and the bodies to Penzance. The...
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    pole. Refloated by the Penlee Lifeboat. September – trawler New Pioneer ran aground at Merthen Point, St Loy. The Penlee Lifeboat took off her three crew...
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