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Coverack Lifeboat Station
Coverack Lifeboat Station was located on the harbour, in the small fishing village of Coverack, about south east of Helston, in the county of Cornwall. A lifeboat station was first established here in 1901 by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). It was closed on 27 March 1980. History On 14 October 1898, the steamship ''SS Mohegan, Mohegan'' ran aground on The Manacles, Manacle Rocks. Four lifeboats were called to the wreck, but only 44 people of the 157 passengers and crew aboard survived. Eight months later on 21 May 1899, the passenger liner ''SS City of Paris (1888), Paris'' was wrecked on the Manacles, off Lowland Point. Fortunately in calm conditions, 386 passengers were transferred off the vessel to a tug, by both the and lifeboats. As a result of these two incidents, it was decided to establish a lifeboat station at Coverack, where sufficient number of lifeboat crew could be found from the local fishermen. A corrugated-iron boathouse was designed by RNLI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coverack
Coverack (, meaning ''cove of the stream'') is a coastal village and fishing port in Cornwall, UK. It lies in the parish of St Keverne, on the east side of the Lizard peninsula about south of Falmouth. Coverack has several hotels and a youth hostel. The area is a centre for watersports, particularly wind surfing, sailing and diving. The nearby rocks known as the Manacles have been the site of many shipwrecks and as a consequence are now a favourite diving destination. Geography Near the South West Coast Path is Poldowrian Garden which includes a prehistoric settlement discovered in 1965, dated by archaeologists at 5500 BC. Finds from the site are available for viewing. The roads to Coverack cross Goonhilly Downs (famous for the BT satellite earth station). "Coverack Cove and Dolor Point" SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest) is one of the most famous geological localities in Cornwall, providing an almost continuous section across a mantle-crust boundary. Other nearby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
