The Mary Stanford in Fiction
Monica Edwards wrote a fictional account of the lifeboat disaster in her children's novel Storm Ahead which was published in 1953. The young Monica Edwards (née Newton) witnessed the disaster at first hand: her father, the Reverend Harry Newton, was vicar of Rye Harbour at the time and officiated at the mass funeral. Monica was known to have been close friends with Charlie Southerden who died on the lifeboat.
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