Nantucket - Nantucket Life Saving Museum

The Nantucket Life Saving Museum is devoted to the people who braved the seas and dangerous shoals around Nantucket to save the lives of sailors in trouble. The museum houses a collection of marine artifacts and live-saving equipment including a Mass Humane Society surfboat and its horse-drawn carriage, Lyle and Hunt guns and a restored early U.S. Coast Guard beach cart that staff use to demonstrate the beach drills. Among other displays, there are also photos and artifacts from some of Nantucket's early lifesaving stations.