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RNLB Mary Stanford
RNLB Mary Stanford may refer to: * RNLB ''Mary Stanford'' (ON 661), based at Rye Harbour, Sussex, 1916 - 1028 * RNLB ''Mary Stanford'' (ON 733), based at Ballycotton, County Cork, 1930 - 1959 {{ship index ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RNLB Mary Stanford (ON 661)
RNLB ''Mary Stanford'' (ON 661) was a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) Liverpool-class pulling and sailing type lifeboat stationed in Rye Harbour. On 15 November 1928 the ''Mary Stanford'' capsized, drowning the entire crew of 17. The lifeboat was launched in a south-west gale with heavy rain squalls and heavy seas to the vessel ''Alice'' of Riga. News was received that the crew of the ''Alice'' had been rescued by another vessel and the recall signal was fired three times. Apparently, the lifeboat crew had not seen it. As the lifeboat finally came back into harbour she was seen to capsize and the whole of the crew perished. Previous service About every 10–15 years the RNLI lifeboats around the coast of Britain and Ireland are replaced with new boats as a matter of course. Some stations stay with the same class of boat and others are upgraded to the new improved versions of what they have had, or downgraded to a more suitable class to carry out the work that they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
