Tag: Royal National Lifeboat Institution

Discover Royal National Lifeboat Institution in the pages of Rye’s Own, where the subject emerges through local voices, historical detail and stories written close to the events. Among the pieces gathered here are “Lifeboats” and “Seventy-Six Years Have Passed but Their Heroism Does Not Fade”, each adding its own detail to the story.

Seventy-Six Years Have Passed but Their Heroism Does Not Fade

Seventy-Six years ago the terrible lifeboat disaster hit the small community of Rye Harbour and claimed seventeen lives. A copy of the Rye Harbour, Camber & Broomhill Magazine for December 1928 has been loaned to us by Paul Kennedy, a relative of one of the lifeboatmen lost on the Mary Stanford, who is researching the … Continue reading Seventy-Six Years Have Passed but Their Heroism Does Not Fade

Lifeboats

Rye Harbour District Branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution By Anthony Kimber The Royal National Lifeboat Institute has provided the lifeboat service for some 175 years. It has always been a voluntary service funded entirely by public subscription and collection.