In the Isis gardens, site of the original Railway Station.
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The Hayle Lifeboat Station was closed in 1920.
Isis - Hayle Lifeboat
Penzance had her lifeboat in 1803, St Ives in 1840, but Hayle did not,
and still vessels and their crews came under the ever attentive eyes of death and destruction as they approached the estuary.
Whatever brave assistance could be afforded from St Ives, many was the time that entry to offer help had to be overland at first.
That was true in 1866 with the wreck of the Bessie, where the Penzance lifeboat had also to be brought overland to the scene.
The disasters being so acute, a decision was finally made to provide the harbour with a lifeboat.
The funding provided, as stated here, the boat was first set out on the river at Oxford by the rowing eight;
it was then taken by Great Western and the other Rail companies, free of charge, to Hayle and paraded with great ceremony;
a boathouse was built on North Quay, in the little CCC quarry.
Isis was 32 x 7.5 x 3.5 feet; 10 oars, built 1866 by Forrestt of Limehouse.
Besides the lives saved as listed, she saved the ships
Nicholas Harvey in 1866, Lizzie in 1869, Vigilant in 1869, Bonne Adele in 1880, Constance 1881,
SS Drumhendry 1882, Star of St Agnes 1882, Glynn 1885, Albert Wilhelm 1886.
Raymond Forward
