RNLB Mary Stanford (ON 661)

News was received that the crew of the Alice had been rescued by another vessel and the recall signal was fired three times.

[1] On Tuesday 20 November the funeral was held of fifteen of the crew, buried in a communal grave.

When Henry Cutting's body was found at Eastbourne 3 months later, it was bought back home and interred with his fellow crew members.

[1] A memorial tablet made of Manx stone was presented to Rye Harbour by the people of the Isle of Man.

[4] The seventeen men who lost their lives were Herbert Head (47), coxswain, and two sons James Alfred (19) and John Stanley (17); Joseph Stonham (43), 2nd Coxswain; Henry Cutting (39), Bowman and his two brothers Roberts Redvers (28) and Albert Ernest (26); Charles Frederick David (28), Robert Henry (23) and Lewis Alexander (21) Pope, three brothers; William Thomas Albert (27) and Leslie George (24) Clark, brothers; Arthur George (25) and Maurice James (23) Downey, cousins; Albert Ernest Smith (44), Walter Igglesden (37) and Charles Southerden (22).

The Mary Stanford Lifeboat Memorial