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The Night Mousehole Went Dark: Penlee's Lifeboat Lost at Sea
The Night Mousehole Went Dark: Penlee's Lifeboat Lost at Sea
Mousehole's Christmas lights shone on December 17, 1981 - and forty-eight hours later the harbour went dark after two vessels and sixteen people were lost with eight bodies never recovered. What forced a crew to return into seas with sixty-foot waves and a radio cut off mid-sentence?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from a village switch-on to a storm that became the worst RNLI loss in nearly fifty years, following the Solomon Browne crew, the stricken MV Union Star, and the decisions that shaped that night. How did…
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