Coverack Lifeboat Station

From the collection of

The Box
Established in 1992, the South West Film & Television Archive collection spans from 1893 to the present day containing more than 250,000 items. Formed from a variety of depositors, including broadcast news and programmes material from the Westward and TSW archive. In 2018 the archive collection transferred to The Box in Plymouth.

Coverack Lifeboat Station


TV reporter David Mudd meets two of the lifeboatmen from Coverack, the Secretary Harold Martin and the Coswain Reginald Carey. The Coverack Lifeboat Station was set up in 1901 as a response to two disasters on the perilous Manacles, the rocks off Lowland Point. First the liner Mohegan hit the reef and sunk on 14 October 1898 with the loss of over a hundred lives and on 21 May 1899 the passenger steamer Paris struck Minstrel Rock on its way from London to New York with no losses.


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