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Lytham Lifeboat Station
Lytham Lifeboat Station is a 'former' lifeboat station, (by virtue of its merger), located in the Fylde coast town of Lytham, Lancashire.
A lifeboat was first stationed here by the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society (SFMRBS) in 1851. Management of the station was passed to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) on 7 December 1854.
In 1931, the Lytham station merged with the St Annes RNLI branch, becoming Lytham St Annes Lifeboat Station, which continues to this day.
In 1851, Mr John Hayes of Lytham wrote to the Royal National Institute for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (RNIPLS) in 1851, requesting that a lifeboat be placed at Lytham. The Institution had been going through lean times, especially since the loss of its driving force and founder in 1847, Sir William Hillary, Bt, and requested that local funding make up half the cost of the boat. Having raised £200, the SFMRBS then stepped forward, and offered to fund a boat for the amount already raised. Concerned at the decline of the RNIPLS, they were wanting to start their own lifeboat stations.
An agreement was made, and a 28-foot 8-oar lifeboat was constructed by James Beeching, using a design which had won the prize of £100 for a self-righting lifeboat, in a competition set by the Duke of Northumberland, now the president of the RNIPLS. Land and a boathouse were provided by local landowner John Talbot Clifton of Lytham Hall. The lifeboat arrived in December 1851, and was named The Clifton.
Less than one year later, disaster struck Lytham Lifeboat. Capsized on exercise on 1 October 1852, 8 men were lost. The lifeboat didn't self-right. Afterwards it was discovered that doors had been cut into the airtight boxes for storage, and that the water ballast tanks had not been plugged, allowing the water to escape, thus cancelling any self-righting capability. None of the crew were wearing lifejackets. In a twist of fate, the two survivors, James Parkinson and Richard Gillett, would be drowned in a separate incident in 1863.
In 1854, under the guidance of the Duke of Northumberland, the RNIPLS was in a better financial position. On 5 October 1854, the RNIPLS became the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, and on 7 December, the SFMRBS handed over the management of all their stations, including Lytham, to the RNLI. This would allow the SFMRBS to concentrate of the welfare of those people rescued.
A 30-foot Peake-class lifeboat built by Forrestt of Limehouse arrived at Lytham on 12 Aug 1855. She was named Eleanor Cecily, after Mrs Clifton of Lytham Hall. In terrible conditions on the 20 October 1862, the Lytham boat rescued 14 from the Full-rigged vessel Ann. E. Hooper of Baltimore, ashore on Horse bank. with another 4 being rescued by the Southport lifeboat. Lytham coastguard George Read was aboard the Eleanor Cecily. He would later be awarded the Presidential Gold Medal. Monetary awards were sent by president Abraham Lincoln. 13 were rescued from the Brazil of Liverpool, on passage from Bangor, Maine, which went ashore on Salthouse Bank on 26 December 1862.
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Lytham Lifeboat Station
Lytham Lifeboat Station is a 'former' lifeboat station, (by virtue of its merger), located in the Fylde coast town of Lytham, Lancashire.
A lifeboat was first stationed here by the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society (SFMRBS) in 1851. Management of the station was passed to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) on 7 December 1854.
In 1931, the Lytham station merged with the St Annes RNLI branch, becoming Lytham St Annes Lifeboat Station, which continues to this day.
In 1851, Mr John Hayes of Lytham wrote to the Royal National Institute for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (RNIPLS) in 1851, requesting that a lifeboat be placed at Lytham. The Institution had been going through lean times, especially since the loss of its driving force and founder in 1847, Sir William Hillary, Bt, and requested that local funding make up half the cost of the boat. Having raised £200, the SFMRBS then stepped forward, and offered to fund a boat for the amount already raised. Concerned at the decline of the RNIPLS, they were wanting to start their own lifeboat stations.
An agreement was made, and a 28-foot 8-oar lifeboat was constructed by James Beeching, using a design which had won the prize of £100 for a self-righting lifeboat, in a competition set by the Duke of Northumberland, now the president of the RNIPLS. Land and a boathouse were provided by local landowner John Talbot Clifton of Lytham Hall. The lifeboat arrived in December 1851, and was named The Clifton.
Less than one year later, disaster struck Lytham Lifeboat. Capsized on exercise on 1 October 1852, 8 men were lost. The lifeboat didn't self-right. Afterwards it was discovered that doors had been cut into the airtight boxes for storage, and that the water ballast tanks had not been plugged, allowing the water to escape, thus cancelling any self-righting capability. None of the crew were wearing lifejackets. In a twist of fate, the two survivors, James Parkinson and Richard Gillett, would be drowned in a separate incident in 1863.
In 1854, under the guidance of the Duke of Northumberland, the RNIPLS was in a better financial position. On 5 October 1854, the RNIPLS became the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, and on 7 December, the SFMRBS handed over the management of all their stations, including Lytham, to the RNLI. This would allow the SFMRBS to concentrate of the welfare of those people rescued.
A 30-foot Peake-class lifeboat built by Forrestt of Limehouse arrived at Lytham on 12 Aug 1855. She was named Eleanor Cecily, after Mrs Clifton of Lytham Hall. In terrible conditions on the 20 October 1862, the Lytham boat rescued 14 from the Full-rigged vessel Ann. E. Hooper of Baltimore, ashore on Horse bank. with another 4 being rescued by the Southport lifeboat. Lytham coastguard George Read was aboard the Eleanor Cecily. He would later be awarded the Presidential Gold Medal. Monetary awards were sent by president Abraham Lincoln. 13 were rescued from the Brazil of Liverpool, on passage from Bangor, Maine, which went ashore on Salthouse Bank on 26 December 1862.
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