The lifeboat had been transported to the station by the London and North Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and the Whitehaven and Furness Railway Companies.

The following day, the lifeboat set out again, this time in the tow of a Steam Tug, and nine men were brought ashore, one reportedly driven insane with fear.

[9] On the 17 January 1934, the steamship SS Plawsworth of Newcastle-upon-Tyne dragged her anchors in a south west gale, and was driven ashore off Workington.

They arrived back to find the vessel had shifted, and although the lifeboat could no longer get close, the 5 remaining aboard were able to wade ashore at low tide.

One man attending the event was Mr. John Murray, the last surviving member of the 1865 crew of the Henry Nixson, the first lifeboat at Maryport.

The new lifeboat, a single-engined 35-foot 6in Liverpool-class, was funded from the legacy of Mr Joseph Braithwaite, a native of Wigton, Cumberland, and was named in his memory.

[11] On the afternoon of 9 October 1940, the wind began to increase, and the herring drifters of Maryport made for home from the Solway Firth.

Such was the speed of the increase in wind-speed, that one boat, the ''Mourne Lass, took only 5 minutes longer than the rest hauling in her nets, but lost an hour on the return journey, and was caught in the now gale force conditions.

Arriving with the Mourne Lass at 18:30, they found the crew exhausted, with the propeller fouled on the nets, and the mizzen sail in shreds.