The  Liverpool pilot boatCharles Livingston, built in 1921, was lost on Saturday, 15^th November, 1939.  When the vessel ran aground Second Master/Pilot Ernest Bibby was in charge.  The weather was bad and deteriorating.  The situation was made worse due to the imposition of war conditions:  the considerable dimming of the Bar Light and the channel buoys.  Just after midnight, Second Master/Pilot Bibby lost sight of the Bar Light, the only means available for positioning the ship.  Thus began the appalling events that ended in tragedy.  With Pilot Bibby in charge, the ship ran aground near Ainsdale at 3.30 am.  Unfortunately, signals were transmitted stating:  ‘Ashore between Bar Light Vessel and Ormes Head,’ causing great confusion for the rescuers, as she was actually off Ainsdale beach.  Four men managed to reach the shore, but it was more than ten hours before the last six survivors were taken off the grounded ship.  Of the thirty three men on board, ten were saved, including Pilot Bibby.  Twenty three drowned.  Seven of them are buried here, in this cemetery.