{"id":605970,"date":"2026-08-27T07:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/605970\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:16:09","slug":"lytham-wicker-sculpture-marks-140-years-since-rnli-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/605970\/","title":{"rendered":"Lytham wicker sculpture marks 140 years since RNLI disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We all don&#8217;t want to call on them, but, if we did, they would be there, so that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s really all about,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The RNLI said the rescue &#8220;remains the worst loss of crew in a single incident in RNLI history&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adrienne Stocks, from Lytham in Bloom, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s a testament to the bravery of the men that went out in the 1880s, and also a testament to the current RNLI and they put their lives at risk all the time to save people so we&#8217;re quite proud of him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">RNLI crew members attended the launch of the artwork, which is located on a bench in Lytham town centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We all don&#8217;t want to call on them, but, if we did, they would be there, so that&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-605970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}