Wreck and Rescue

How can we find out about wreck and rescue around the Cornish coast?


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Henry Trengrouse, a cabinet maker from Helston, is the fore-father of modern lifesaving equipment. He invented the rocket lifeline, breeches buoy and cork life jacket.

In this unit pupils;

  • investigate historical sources to find out why so many shipwrecks happened around Cornwall

  • design and make models of rescue inventions

  • perform a demonstration of a rescue

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