The Lifeboat Monument in St Annes, covered by snow on a winter's morning. The statute stands on the South Promenade in St Annes, Lancashire, England. It commemorates the death of 13 lifeboatmen from 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 December 1886. (The lifeboat from Southport also lost 14 of its 16 man crew in the disaster.) The monument depicts a lifeboatman looking out to sea and standing on a rock-like plinth
The iconic Lifeboat Monument in St Annes on a cold, bleak winter morning. The statue commemorates the death of 13 lifeboatmen from St Annes who were lost in the attempt to rescue the crew of the Mexico that hit a sandbank in Dec 1886
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