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Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster

Plot: 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 Penlee station in Mousehole, Cornwall, put to sea in an exceptionally severe gale to rescue the five-man crew of the MV Union Star, a cargo ship whose engines had failed two miles off the coast and which was in danger of being swept onto the rocks
Release Date: Tuesday, August 1 2006
18 years ago
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Cast

Portrait of Bernard HillBernard HillBernard Hill was 61 in Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster as 'Narrator (voice)'.
Birthday: Sun, Dec 17 1944 –
Sun, May 05 2024

Crew

Portrait of Sally ThomsonSally ThomsonSally Thomson was >> in Cruel Sea: The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster as 'Director'
Birthday: Unknown Birthday