Mary Stanford Lifeboat disaster

On 15th November 1928 at 6.45 a.m. the Mary Stanford Lifeboat with her crew of 17 was launched from this lifeboat house into a south-westerly gale with winds in excess of 80 miles per hour raging in the English Channel to save a stricken vessel - not one of these brave Rye Harbour men ever returned. The lifeboat house was bricked up and abandoned and stands to this day as a monument to those brave men of Sussex who gave their lives to save others

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