Coastguard's Rocket House, British Road, St Agnes, Cornwall
This Coastguard station dates from 1893. It had a telephone connection to the lookout on the coast who could raise the alarm. It had rocket apparatus which could fire a rope out from the land to any ship that ran aground on the rocks. The rope would allow the ship's crew to pull in the attached breeches buoy. The breeches buoy was a pulley system that could winch a sling out to the ship and then winch it back with a person in the sling.
