It is with absolute joy and great delight that I can say that this fine, beautiful and venerable lifeboat, the only RNLI lifeboat in history to have been awarded a Gold medal for her self, has finally been saved from a watery grave, and is now on her way home to her rightful place in history...........BALLYCOTTON, County Cork, EIRE where she is to be restored to working condition.......
A trust was set up last September ( I think) and in that time they have raised enough money to buy her, pay for her uplifting from the Grand Canal Basin, Dublin and transport back to Ballycotton.
Although the now hard work of both restoration and fund raising to pay for that begins.......there is light at the end of the tunnel that one of the most famous lifeboats in RNLI history will be transformed from what you see in the video to a beautiful boat once again.
If you want to read about one of the most famous and arduous rescues in maritime history just google
DAUNT Rock Lightship rescuebelow is a video of her uplifting....
http://vimeo.com/88062401and guess who's going over to see her and her ancestral station in around 4 weeks time...........I can't wait.