the incident. Paul Sirman, a Kentish folk artist who specialises in songs of the sea recorded the incident in his song "Solomon Browne" which appears on his album One For All. Kimber's Men, a sea shanty group, recorded "Don't Take The Heroes" on their CD of the same name. Local band Bates Motel based in Hayle included a song "The Last Wave", about the disaster on their album Anorak. In 2015, Cornish-American singer-songwriter Jim Wearne's album Half Alive in Wallaroo featured the track "The Boys of Penlee", written by fellow Cornish bard Craig Weatherhill, and featuring Weatherhill playing mellotron whose haunting choir sound ends the song with the line "For those in peril on the sea", from the popular sailors' hymn. Simon Dobson wrote a test piece for brass band entitled "Penlee" about the incident. Neil Oliver devotes a chapter to the disaster in his 2008 book Amazing Tales for Making Men out of Boys. It also features in his book The Story of The British Isles in 100 Places. Great Western Railway named unit 802008 RNLB Solomon Browne in a ceremony at Penzance TMD on April 13, 2019. To commemorate the 40th anniversary, a docudrama, Solomon Browne, written and narrated by Callum Mitchell and featuring recorded testimonies from relatives of some of the lifeboat crew, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 20 December 2021. Also in December 2021 Mousehole FC also opened their new stand named "The Solomon Browne Stand". References Further reading External links RNLI History – The 1981 Penlee Lifeboat Disaster Official station website RNLB Solomon Browne history page BBC documentary 'Cruel Sea – The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster' on You Tube News story 'When a cruel sea took the heroes of Penlee' written for the 25th anniversary of the disaster History of Cornwall Shipwrecks in the English Channel Maritime incidents in 1981 Cornish shipwrecks 1981 disasters in the United Kingdom 1981 in England 1980s in Cornwall Maritime incidents in England Royal National Lifeboat Institution European windstorms Disasters in Cornwall December 1981 events in the United Kingdom Ships lost with all hands Mousehole