They were donated a reserve lifeboat from Hull Trinity House, but she needed essential work, and also a carriage and boathouse, but despite raising £161, they were still £108 short.

Negotiations were then held by chairman John Thorley with The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society (SFMRBS), who agreed to take on the management of the station, and paid the £108 debt.

A carriage was ordered from Crosskill of Beverley, and a wooden boathouse, with a thatched roof, was constructed near the beach.

[3] By 1854, the SFMRBS was involved in the management of eight lifeboat stations, Lytham, Rhyl, Portmadoc, Tenby, Llanelly, Teignmouth, Newhaven and Hornsea.

[2] This lifeboat would be launched on 29 October 1869, but couldn't get close to the casualty vessel, the brig Giuseppina, on passage from Naples to Leith when she was driven ashore and wrecked.

John Banyard, Chief Officer, H.M. Coastguard Hornsea, then swam out to the wreck with a line, rescuing the Master.

A few days later, whilst salvage work continued on the vessel, another storm picked up, becoming the Great Gale of 1871, and 13 men were again rescued from the Martha by the Hornsea lifeboat.

The next three lifeboats at Hornsea would be provided from the Settle fund, and all bear the name Ellen and Margaret of Settle[3][8] In 1877, the boathouse was found to be in a state of very poor repair, and in 1878, the freehold of a site was obtained for a new boathouse for £80, within the expanding town of Hornsea.

[2] The last lifeboat at Hornsea, Ellen & Margaret of Settle (ON 633) was transferred to the relief fleet, serving for another 14 years.