Captain’s Notes: Light a Candle and Donate to the RNLI to Mark the Anniversary of the Penlee Lifeboat Tragedy
On the evening of December 19, 1981, the ship Union Star suffered engine failure off the south coast of Cornwall. With a storm building, the Coastguard attempted a helicopter rescue. But the weather forced them to stand off and the RNLI launched the Penlee lifeboat Solomon Browne to help instead. Nobody from the Union Star …