Report shows the ‘Mary Stanford’ lifeboat being towed into Ballycotton Harbour in east Cork last August. To camera Tom MacSweeney on the plan to restore the lifeboat as a memorial to the ...

The Mary Stanford was the lifeboat in the East Cork fishing port of Ballycotton from 1930 to 1959 and was called out on many 'shouts' during her service, saving more than 100 lives. Her most ...

The Mary Stanford lifeboat, which was based in Ballycotton, in East Cork, in the last century, was the first lifeboat in RNLI history to be awarded a gold medal for gallantry for her role in the ...

The Mary Stanford, saved earlier this year from being scuttled, has been installed on a scenic display plinth overlooking Ballycotton Bay in East Cork, from where she sailed into history almost a ...