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Latitude: 53.6353 / 53°38'7"N
Longitude: -2.9973 / 2°59'50"W
OS Eastings: 334156
OS Northings: 415880
OS Grid: SD341158
Mapcode National: GBR 7VHD.XL
Mapcode Global: WH861.XWXH
Plus Code: 9C5VJ2P3+43
Entry Name: Eliza Fernley Lifeboat monument in Cemetery
Listing Date: 29 July 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1379580
English Heritage Legacy ID: 478967
ID on this website: 101379580
Location: Sefton, Merseyside, PR8
County: Sefton
Electoral Ward/Division: Kew
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Southport
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside
Church of England Parish: Southport St Philip and St Paul with Wesley
Church of England Diocese: Liverpool
Tagged with: Memorial
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DUKE STREET (north east side)
Eliza Fernley Lifeboat monument in Cemetery
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II
Monument to the lifeboat crew. Probably c1888-1890. By Ernest Walter Johnson architect, and sculptor Thomas Robinson. Commemorates 14 members of the crew of the Southport lifeboat "Eliza Fernley". Sandstone and polished granite, with marble plaques. Rectangular plan.
EXTERIOR: in the form of a tomb chest raised on a high battered plinth. Low ashlar base with rope-work border and round-topped corner bollards with iron mooring rings; plinth of three courses of large rock-faced sandstone blocks; polished granite chest with terminal pilasters, a sunk panel in each side, a moulded cornice, and the lid carved in representation of a broken mast battered by waves. The panels of the northeast and southeast sides contain lettered marble plaques; that on the north west side contains a good carved relief depicting the lifeboat and its crew caught under the crest of a mountainous wave, that on south west side, relief of anchor and lifebelt, with “Eliza Fernley” on the belt
HISTORY: the crew lost their lives on the night of 9 December 1886 (together with the crew of the St Anne's lifeboat) while attempting to rescue the crew of the German barque "Mexico". This tragedy is also commemorated by an obelisk on the Promenade (qv).
Listing NGR: SD3415615880
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