Mallaig lifeboat crew endured a 10-hour shout in horrendous conditions to save the 1,300-tonne coaster Red Duchess off the Isle of Rum, a small island of the Inner Hebrides, on 2 November.

Coxswain Michael Ian Currie says: ‘The weather was atrocious but we got a tow rope aboard her stern, pulled her round into the wind and got her heading towards the open water of Rum Sound.’ The lifeboat was battered by storm force winds and driving rain until the tug Anglian Prince took up the tow.

Watch this at rnli.org.uk/redduchess.