Flagstaff memorial: The Bishop of Truro, the Right Reverend Peter Mumford, blesses the flagstaff mounted in Truro Cathedral and made as a memorial to the lifeboatmen who died in the Penlee lifeboat disaster of December 1981. The wood for the flagstaff was taken from the wreckage of Solomon Browne and turned by members of the RNLI's depot staff in Poole. The Duke of Atholl (r) chairman of the Institution was present at the blessing and unveiled a plaque commemorating the disaster.

photograph by courtesy of Andrew Besley.