From the Liverpool Mercury - January 5, 1907 The Ryde [I.O.Wight] lifeboat on Tuesday capsized off Ryde Pier after a fruitless search for a drifting boat with a man in it. The crew of nine were blown across to Southsea clinging to the boat. When a quarter of a mile from Southsea Castle two men, William HOWARD, High St, Ryde, 2nd Coxswain of the lifeboat and Frank HAINES of Ryde, coastguardman, were swept away from the upturned boat, their bodies subsequently recovered at Southsea. The lifeboat was new and was on her first launch to save a life. The man adrift whose assistance the lifeboat went to was picked up by the Bembridge lifeboat, eastward of the Isle of Wight. Best wishes....mary lou sun valley, id usa