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After almost fifty hours at sea, in the worst conditions imaginable, the Ballycotton lifeboat Mary Stanford brought the survivors from the Daunt Rock lightvessel to safety and conclude one of the most dramatic and outstanding rescues in the history of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. The Gold Medal was awarded to Coxswain Patrick Sliney with Silver and Bronze medals going to the rest of the crew for their courage, valour and gallantry in performing a rescue against all odds. This exceptional service is just one of the many award-winning rescues performed by Ireland's lifeboat men and women, whose courage, dedication and willingness to help others in distress has characterised the service since the first lifeboats were operated in the country in the early years of the nineteenth century. Today the lifeboat service in Ireland is the responsibility of the RNLI, which currently operates more than forty lifeboat stations. This volume contains details of every one, providing information about each station's current lifeboat to an historical overview of each as well as descriptions of the most noteworthy rescues. Nicholas Leach has included a wealth of information, past and present, about the lifeboat service in Ireland. A large number of modern photographs showing lifeboats in service today accompany a great many nostalgic images of lifeboats in nineteenth and early twentieth century Ireland. The author has visited very one of Ireland's lifeboat stations, old and new, to provide a complete photographic record of all aspects of the RNLI's work in Ireland. The result is the definitive work on lifeboats, lifeboat stations and maritime rescue services in Ireland.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #441926 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-01
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages