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    A disaster in the English towns of Southport and St Anne's-on-the-Sea occurred on the evening of the 9th December 1886, when 27 lifeboat men lost their...
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    the Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster or the Mexico Disaster. The station was closed in 1925 by the RNLI. The Lifeboat house was used by the...
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    ISBN 978-1979172233. "Southport Lifeboat – Welcome – Southport Offshore Rescue Trust – Southport LifeboatsSouthport Search and Rescue". southport-lifeboat.co.uk....
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    out to sea was placed on the promenade at St Anne's after the Mexico Disaster of 1886. The original lifeboat station was established in 1881 but closed...
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  • rough seas and sank. Penlee lifeboat disaster Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster The Surfboats, The Mayor and Charter Trustees of Margate, 2007,...
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    Ainsdale, near Southport. Three lifeboats were launched to come to her rescue: Laura Janet from St Annes, Eliza Fernley from Southport, and Charles Biggs...
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  • New York on January 2, 1837 Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster, in which a ship named Mexico wrecked at Southport on December 9, 1886 Mexico,...
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  • States Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster, involving the wrecking of the German barque Mexico off the coast of Southport and Lytham St Annes in the...
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    safety and durability of lifeboats, including self-righting and motor power. Life jackets were continuously being improved. Royal National Lifeboat Institution...
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    documented about the Mexico disaster. All 13 crewmen aboard the Laura Janet of St Annes, and 14 of 16 crew of the Southport lifeboat Eliza Fearnley were lost...
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    Promenade, and consists of a statue of a lifeboatmen looking out to sea. Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster Listed buildings in Southport Southport Offshore...
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    the Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster. In 1891 a wooden landing jetty at the end of the pier was extended, in an L shape, by engineering and architecture...
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    in the 1886 Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster. A memorial to more of the crew members that were lost is in the churchyard of St Cuthbert's in...
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    Ending the ceremony was a demonstration of the four lifeboats from Lytham, Southport and St Annes. It had been realised that a broad-beam more stable...
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    documented about the Mexico disaster. All 13 crewmen aboard the St Annes lifeboat Laura Janet, and 14 of 16 crew of the Southport lifeboat Eliza Fearnley, were...
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  • Retrieved 25 May 2014. "Southport Lifeboat - Early history". Retrieved 25 May 2014. "Awareness day for independent lifeboats". The Caledonian Mercury...
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    UK public library membership required.) "RNLI History Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster". "Macara, Sir William Cowper". Who's Who. A & C Black...
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  • statue to Sister Dora unveiled in Walsall. 9 December Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster. Beatification of Edmund Campion (executed 1581) by Pope...
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    Birkdale Palace Hotel (category Buildings and structures in Southport)
    drowned in the Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster on 9 December 1886, when the sailing ship Mexico was driven aground near Southport by a storm....
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    near Southport. Three lifeboats were launched to come to her rescue, Charles Biggs from Lytham, Eliza Fernley from Southport, and Laura Janet from St Annes...
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    Promenade, and consists of a statue of a lifeboatman looking out to sea. Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster Listed buildings in Southport Citations...
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    chairman and managing director of Henry Bannerman & Sons (Ltd.) and Bannerman Mills Co. (Ltd.). Motivated by the Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster, he...
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    Ellen Southard (category Disasters in Merseyside)
    Conant, Acting Secretary of the Treasury page Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster Penlee lifeboat disaster Other shareholders were T.J. Southard himself...
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  • reserve lifeboats and carriages. A depot for this was established at Poplar, London in 1882. The loss of 27 lifeboat crew from Southport and St Annes in 1886...
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    times and saved 117 lives. Following the Mexico disaster, when 27 lifeboat men from Southport and St Annes lost their lives in December 1886, and with...
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  • The crew of twelve were saved by the Lytham lifeboat Charles Biggs, but the Southport and St. Annes lifeboats both capsized, with 27 of the 29 crew being...
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  • Southport is a seaside town in Sefton, Merseyside, England. It contains 175 buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated...
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    She was educated at St Andrew's School and Marlborough College before earning a degree in art history at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where...
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  •  15333. London. 19 September 1873. p. 6. "Wreck of a French Vessel off Southport". Birmingham Daily Post. No. 4734. Birmingham. 16 September 1873. "Summary"...
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    2024 – via Trove. "Passing of Mrs. MacDonald". South Coast Bulletin. Southport. 8 June 1949. p. 12. Retrieved 24 January 2024 – via Trove. Randall, Brian...
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