Lifeboat memorial, Rye Harbour, East Sussex

The main inscription is on the vertical memorial, the names are listed on slabs laid around the horizontal part of the assembly.

WE HAVE DONE THAT WHICH WAS OUR DUTY TO DO

To the memory of the seventeen brave men the crew of the Mary Stanford lifeboat who perished in a heavy gale while gallantly responding to the call for help from the S. S. Alice of Riga on the morning of the 15th November 1928

Charles Southerden aged 22 years
Leslie George Clark aged 24 years
William Thomas Albert Clark aged 27 years
Walter Igglesden aged 38 years
Lewis Alexander Pope aged 21 years
Robert Henry Pope aged 23 years
Chas Frederick David Pope aged 28 years
Joseph Sonham (2nd Coxswain) aged 43 years
Herbert Head (Coxswain of the boat) aged 47 years
Henry Cutting (Bowman) aged 39 years
John Stanley Head aged 17 years
James Alfred Head aged 19 years
Morriss Downey aged 23 years
Arthur William Downey aged 25 years
Albert Ernest Smith aged 44 years
Albert Ernest Cutting aged 26 years
Rovert Redvers Cutting aged 28 years