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 was the Ballycotton lifeboat from 1930 to 1959. She and her crew were called out on 41 ‘shouts’, saving 122 lives during her service. But she is most famous for her ...

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 ...