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.
Southport Cemetery lifeboat memorial
Mexico beached
Painting of Mexico being unloaded
Illustration of the capsizing of the lifeboat Eliza Fernley
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is the largest of the lifeboat services operating around the coasts of the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, as well as on some
Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster
…house, being named The Fishermen's Rest, and is reputed to be haunted by the spirits of the dead men. The disaster is the worst in the history of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), with 27 lifeboat crew lost. Sixteen women were left widows, and fifty children lost their fathers. A public fund for relief of the widows and…
Memorial in Douglas, Isle of Man to the lifeboat rescue of the sailors from the St George in 1830
RNLB Ipswich, a standard Peake-class lifeboat built in 1862
An Arun-class lifeboat
RNLI lifeguards on duty at Sennen in Cornwall