STILL SAVING LIFE
MAN DEAD 85 YEARS HONOUR IN HOME TOWN IDEA FOR ROCKET APPARATUS A MAN who, though he died 85 years ago, still saves hundreds of lives every year, is to be honoured by the people of Helston, Cornwall, his native town. In ISO 7 Henry Trengrouse, a cabinet maker, watched 11.M.5. Anson, a large 44-gun frigate, being pounded to pieces on the rocks in a gale. Ho saw more than a hundred souls swept to death without anyone being able to lift a hand to save them. Trengrouse determined that he would devote his life to inventing some means of rescuing sailors shipwrecked within range of shore. His inspiration came some years later when he watched a firework display on Helston Green. The streaks of firing rushing into the darkness gave him the idea of attaching a rope to a rocket and thereby establishing communication between a wrecked vessel and the shore. Trengrouse spent thousands of pounds in experiments, but died penniless. Now Helston Borough Council are proposing to build a museum in his honour.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23381, 24 June 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)
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