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Sixteen people die off the coast of Cornwall, UK, when the Penlee Lifeboat, Solomon Browne, goes to the aid of the coaster Union Star after its engines fail in heavy seas. The lifeboat had managed to rescue four people but then both vessels were lost with all hands. The 2008 song Solomon Browne by singer-songwriter Seth Lakeman is about the Penlee lifeboat disaster.
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