Newspaper cutting dated 1889
THE RECENT DROWNING FATALITY AT LYTHAM.
The body of T.Dawson, one of the two unfortunate men who lost
their lives in the recent boating fatality off Lytham, was recovered on Saturday
last on the sands about a mile from the Naze Nook, and a few yards from the sea
wall, where it had been left by the preceding tide. It was at one conveyed to the
mortuary of the Talbot Hotel, Lytham, where Dr. Gilbertson conducted an enquiry on
Monday.
Mr. Walter Embley was appointed foreman of the jury.—William Barlow deposed that he
was a fisherman, and lived at 37, East Cliff. Deceased was his brother-in-law. He
was a fisherman, aged 20 years, and lived at 37, East Cliff. On Saturday the 6th
August, deceased, John Moore, and witness went out about six o'clock in the evening
in a fishing boat, The Lizzie.
They started from about opposite the boat house on Lytham Beach,
and drifted down with the tide, dragging their net as far as opposite Ansdell
station. They then took the net on board and hoisted their sail to run back. When
they had got about 150 yards from the side the sea caught the boat on her quarter,
turned her broadside to the sea and the wind, and she capsized in an instant. They
were all thrown out. They got hold of the boat, but she kept turning over and
over.
The last time that he saw deceased he and Moore had hold of the
net, and witness stuck to the stern of the boat. He did not see them again, but was
picked up in about an hour afterwards by a boat from a steam barge in the Ribble.
There was a fairly heavy sea—what they might call a nice salmon sea— running at the
time.
William Abraham, fisherman, living at Preston, deposed that he, in company with
George Richardson, found the body of the deceased on Saturday. He was a mile above
the Naze Nook, about four yards off the wall, in a boat. The body was on the dry
sand, and witness took it into the boat and brought it to Lytham.—A verdict of
accidental death was returned.—During the inquiry the Coroner remarked on the
danger which the salmon fisher had to contend with, and expressed an opinion that
their boats should have a greater beam than at present was the case.
The interment took place at St. Cuthbert's Parish Church on Monday afternoon,
accompanied by military honours—the deceased, like his equally unfortunate
companion Moore, being a member of the local company of Volunteers. The band of the
company played the " Dead March," and over the open grave the customary three
volleys were fired. A large number of friends of the deceased attended to pay their
last token of respect, and the coffin was covered with wreaths of flowers.
Newspaper cutting dated 1889
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