00:00We sing sea shanties and people come and listen, they can bring the fish and chips and throw some
00:06money into the buckets to support the RNLI. We're by the sea, we just have one RNLI member,
00:14Tony Cox who is the mechanic and he's also the coxswain of the lifeboat crew and he's our one
00:22true RNLI crew member. We play this which is a traditional shanty instrument, it's a monkey stick
00:29or an ugly stick or a river rattler or a mendoza or a lager phone named after all the bottle tops
00:36that are on it. This is a traditional shanty instrument and the idea was that the shanty
00:40man, the shanties were all from the age of sail and when the shanty man was beating out the tune
00:44he needed something to beat the tune with. Here in Limson Sands is quite poignant because in 1886
00:51there was the greatest disaster that befell the RNLI when 27 lifeboat crewmen from Southport and
01:04St. Anne's crews, they lost their lives saving 12 of the crew of the Mexico. The Lytham crew saved
01:13them and it really sparked the public appeal for the RNLI.
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