The Newquay life-boat station was established in 1860. Its life-boats have been launched fifty- one times on service and have rescued 103 lives. It has the steepest launching slipway on our coasts, with a gradient of 1 in 2f, and the life-boat cannot be hauled up it, but after a launch is brought back to her house by horses. As there are no longer horses available, the station has been closed. There are now motor life-boats on either side, at St. Ives and Padstow, and it is thirteen years since the Newquay life-boat was required on service..