A town remembers: Harry Bamber, Ken Smith, bearing the RNLI standard, and David Topping of Lytham lifeboat crew are followed by their Coxswain Arthur Wignall (I) and Helmsman Edward Brown of New Brighton in the procession on July 27, 1986, to mark the centenary of the Mexico lifeboat disaster. Also in the procession were 50 officers and men from the West German navy ship FGS Braunschweig (Mexico was a German ship), the Stockport lifeboat auxiliaries, HM Coastguards and Sea Cadet units..