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The Mexico was a ship that was wrecked off Southport
Southport

Southport is a seaside resort within the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in Merseyside, England. The town is located on the Irish Sea coast, to the north of Liverpool and west-southwest of Preston....
 on 9 December 1886.

History
Shipwreck
On 9 December 1886, the Mexico was on its way from Liverpool
Liverpool

Liverpool [] is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a History of borough status in England and Wales in 1207 and was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1880....
 to Guayaquil
Guayaquil

Guayaquil , officially Santiago de Guayaquil, is the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador, as well as that nation's main port. Guayaquil is located on the western bank of the Guayas River, which flows into the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Guayaquil....
, Ecuador
Ecuador

Ecuador , officially the , literally, "Republic of the equator") is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west....
 when it was caught in a storm. Lifeboats
Lifeboat (rescue)

The meaning of lifeboat or motor lifeboat described in this article is that of 'a shore-based boat designed with special features for searching for, rescuing and saving the lives of people in peril at sea in inshore waters'....
 were launched from Lytham, St. Annes and Southport
Southport

Southport is a seaside resort within the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in Merseyside, England. The town is located on the Irish Sea coast, to the north of Liverpool and west-southwest of Preston....
 to rescue the crew. The Lytham lifeboat Charles Biggs, which was on her maiden rescue, rescued the twelve crew but both the St.






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The Mexico was a ship that was wrecked off Southport
Southport

Southport is a seaside resort within the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in Merseyside, England. The town is located on the Irish Sea coast, to the north of Liverpool and west-southwest of Preston....
 on 9 December 1886.

History


Shipwreck


On 9 December 1886, the Mexico was on its way from Liverpool
Liverpool

Liverpool [] is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a History of borough status in England and Wales in 1207 and was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1880....
 to Guayaquil
Guayaquil

Guayaquil , officially Santiago de Guayaquil, is the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador, as well as that nation's main port. Guayaquil is located on the western bank of the Guayas River, which flows into the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Guayaquil....
, Ecuador
Ecuador

Ecuador , officially the , literally, "Republic of the equator") is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west....
 when it was caught in a storm. Lifeboats
Lifeboat (rescue)

The meaning of lifeboat or motor lifeboat described in this article is that of 'a shore-based boat designed with special features for searching for, rescuing and saving the lives of people in peril at sea in inshore waters'....
 were launched from Lytham, St. Annes and Southport
Southport

Southport is a seaside resort within the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in Merseyside, England. The town is located on the Irish Sea coast, to the north of Liverpool and west-southwest of Preston....
 to rescue the crew. The Lytham lifeboat Charles Biggs, which was on her maiden rescue, rescued the twelve crew but both the St. Annes lifeboat Laura Janet and the Southport lifeboat Eliza Fernley were capsized, and 27 of the 29 crew were drowned. To date, this is the worst loss of RNLI crew in a single incident.

Aftermath


Sixteen women were left widows, and fifty children lost their fathers. Queen Victoria and the Kaiser
William I, German Emperor

Wilhelm I, also known as Wilhelm the Great of the House of Hohenzollern was the monarch of Kingdom of Prussia and the first German Emperor ....
 sent their condolences to the families of the lifeboatmen. An appeal was launched to raise money to provide a memorial to those killed, and the organisation by Sir Charles Macara of the first street collections in Manchester
Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
 in 1891 led to the first flag day
Flag Day

A flag day is a flag-related holiday?either a day designated for flying a certain flag , or a day set aside to celebrate a historical event such as a nation's adoption of its flag....
s. The disaster has a permanent memorial in Lytham St. Annes lifeboat house. An appeal has been launched by the Lytham St. Annes Civic Society for the restoration of four of the memorials.

Memorials

Memorials to the tragedy were erected on the Promenade at St. Annes, in the lifboat house at Lytham St. Annes, in St. Annes parish church, in St. Cuthbert's church and at Layton Cemetery. A memorial was also erected at Duke Street Cemetery, Southport.

Television

The story of the wreck of the Mexico was featured in an episode of the BBC TV programme Coast
Coast (TV series)

Coast is a British Broadcasting Corporation Television documentary series first broadcast on BBC Two television channel in 2005. A second series started on 26 October 2006 and a third in spring 2007....
, appearing in the fifth episode of the first series, first broadcast on 3 July 2005.

See also

  • Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster
    Southport and St Anne's lifeboats disaster

    On the 9 December 1886 the Mexico, a Hamburg-registered barque bound for Guayaquil from Liverpool Shipwreck near Southport, in a full west north westerly gale....
  • Royal National Lifeboat Institution
    Royal National Lifeboat Institution

    The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of the British Isles, as well as inshore. It was founded on 4 March 1824 as the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, adopting the present name in 1854....