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Following the disaster, John Unwin, the mayor of
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Southport local committee established a competition to design a monument to stand in the cemetery at a cost of no more than £170. The design submitted by Ernest Walter Johnson was accepted, and £185 was allowed for its construction. The sculptor was Thomas Robinson.
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The memorial was designated as a Grade II listed building on 29 July 1999. Grade II is the lowest of the three grades of listing and is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest".
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were rescued by the Lytham lifeboat, but the other two lifeboats capsized. All thirteen of the crew of the St Annes lifeboat were lost, and only two of the sixteen members of the
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base. The base is decorated with rope-work, and on each corner is a bollard with an iron mooring ring. The plinth is in sandstone, and the tomb chest is in granite. There are
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carving. This carving depicts a view from above of a sinking lifeboat and its crew surrounded by waves. The inscriptions include the following:
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