Mexico disaster monument, South Promenade, St Annes on Sea

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231330

Reference identifier

NST01072010001

Title

Mexico disaster monument, South Promenade, St Annes on Sea

Place

St Annes on Sea

General notes

The lifeboat monument is situated on St. Anne's Promenade, near the Bandstand. The monument commemorates the disaster of 9th December 1886 when the lives of all the fourteen crewmen of the St Annes lifeboat the "Laura Janet" were lost in attempting to rescue the crew of the barque "Mexico". The Southport lifeboat was also lost in the same attempt and all but two of the sixteen man crew died.

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