Exhibition to commemorate daring rescue off Cork coast

A daring rescue by the crew of a Baltimore lifeboat of 23 people from the steamship Alondra, which was wrecked off the West Cork village almost a century ago, is to feature in a major RNLI touring exhibition commemorating the centenary of the First World War.

The exhibition, Hope in the Great War, is funded by Arts Council England and will honour the courage and bravery of lifeboat crews who risked their lives to save others during the war.

While a lot of people will be familiar with the sinking of the Lusitania off the Cork coast in 1915, not as many will be aware of the Alondra rescue which took place in Baltimore a year later.