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The monument commemorates the death of 27 lifeboatmen from St Anne’s and Southport 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 monument depicts a lifeboatman looking out to sea and standing on a rock-like plinth. The lifeboatman wears a ‘rough jersey and a sou’wester. Strapped around the waist is the lifebelt. The left hand rests upon a lifebuoy and in the right hand is the line coming over the shoulder.

Title

Lifeboat Memorial

Date

1888

Medium

sandstone

Measurements

H 210 x W (?) x D (?) cm;
Plinth: H 200 x W 200 x D 200 cm

Accession number

FY8_DR_S024

Acquisition method

erected by public subscription

Work type

Monument

Owner

Fylde Borough Council

Custodian

Fylde Borough Council

Work status

extant

Listing status

Grade II (England and Wales)

Unveiling date

23rd May 1888

Listing date

15/02/93

Access

at all times

Signature/marks description

left of base: W.B.RHIND Sc EDINBURGH

Inscription description

on plinth: THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED/ BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION / IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM JOHNSON COXSWAIN / CHARLES TIMS SUB COXSWAIN / OLIVER HODSON BOWMAN / THOMAS BONNEY / JAMES BONNEY / NICHOLAS PARKINSON / JAMES M. DOBSON / JAMES JOHNSON / RICHARD FISHER / JOHN P. WIGNALL / THOMAS PARKINSON / JAMES HARRISON / REUBEN A. TIMS / THE CREW OF THE ST ANNES LIFEBOAT / WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN A GALLANT ATTEMPT / TO RESCUE THE CREW / OF THE GERMAN BARQUE MEXICO / WRECKED OFF SOUTHPORT / ON THE NIGHT OF 9TH DECEMBER 1886

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