WOMEN OF “GRIT.”

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 1 August 1901, Page 4

WOMEN OF “GRIT.”

11 How the women of Runswick Bay launched the lifeboat ” ought (says the Daily Chronicle) to form the theme of a stirring ballad. Runswick Bay is a quaint liitlo fishing village in the cleft of the Yorkshire coast, and recently the fishermen’s wives did a deed which deserves far wider notice than it has yet received. The fishing boats were caught in a heavy storm before they could return to shore, and were beaten back by the heavy seas every time they made for the beach. All the men of the lifeboat crew, from iho coxswain downwards, were out in the fishing smacks, so the women launched the lifeboat themselves. They then whipped up a scratch crew of old men and lads from the village, and the same women who had dragged the boat down to the beach waded out into deep water and launched the b sit from i.s carriuge. Nor did they leave the boat until every man had been brought ashore hours later, and then, drenched ;o the skin, marched proudly homo on their husbands’ arms to thc-ir red-tiled cottages on the cliff.