Lifeboat Memorial, Lytham
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The Lifeboat Memorial, Lytham, is in the churchyard of St Cuthbert's Church, Lytham St Annes, Fylde, Lancashire, England. It commemorates the death of 27 lifeboatmen from Southport and St Annes who we
Lytham memorial to RNLI lifeboat Laura Janet 1886
Windmill, Lytham DSC07146
The Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster occurred on the evening of 9 December 1886, when 27 lifeboat men lost their lives trying to save the crew of the German barque Mexico.
Lifeboat Memorial, Lytham
…England. It commemorates the death of 27 lifeboatmen from Southport and St Annes who were lost in the attempt to rescue the crew of the German barque Mexico that had been driven into a sandbank in a gale in 1886. The memorial is in the form of a Gothic-style tabernacle with a crocketed pinnacle. It is…
Southport Cemetery lifeboat memorial
Mexico beached
Painting of Mexico being unloaded
Illustration of the capsizing of the lifeboat Eliza Fernley