The Lizard Lifeboat Station refers to several Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboat stations located on the Lizard in Cornwall, United Kingdom...
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Point in 1752 and the RNLI operates the Lizard lifeboat station. The name "Lizard" is most probably a corruption of the Cornish name "Lys Ardh", meaning...
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the time. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) operates The Lizard lifeboat station at Kilcobben Cove, two miles (3 km) northeast of Lizard...
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since 1619. The Lizard Lifeboat Station, operated by the RNLI, is situated at Kilcobben Cove half-a-mile (800 m) east of the village. The Spanish Armada...
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at the Penlee Lifeboat Station near Mousehole, went to the aid of the vessel Union Star after its engines failed in heavy seas. After the lifeboat had...
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Penlee Lifeboat Station is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) search and rescue operations for Mount's Bay in Cornwall, United Kingdom...
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Cadgwith (redirect from Cadgwith Lifeboat Station)
The Cadgwith station was closed in 1963 after the merger, in 1961, of the Lizard and Cadgwith lifeboats and the opening of a new lifeboat station, the...
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Cornwall. A lifeboat station was first established here in 1901 by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). Coverack lifeboat station was closed...
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The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the largest of the lifeboat services operating around the coasts of the United Kingdom, the Republic...
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List of funicular railways (redirect from List of funiculars in the United Kingdom)
East Hill Lift (opened 1903) West Hill Lift (opened 1891) Lizard, The Lizard Lifeboat Station (RNLI) Lynton and Lynmouth, Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway...
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Tamar-class lifeboats are all-weather lifeboats (ALBs) operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) around the coasts of Great Britain and...
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Newquay Lifeboat Station is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) search and rescue operations at Newquay, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom...
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Islay Lifeboat Station is located in the harbour village of Port Askaig, which sits on the Sound of Islay, in the north east corner of the Isle of Islay...
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South West Coast Path (section History of the path)
Coastguard Station. The Lizard lifeboat station is a sheltered position in Kilcobben Cove. Passing through Cadgwith and across Kennack Sands, the path heads...
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Civil Service lifeboats are a group of lifeboats belonging to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution which have been funded by The Lifeboat Fund. They usually...
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Porthoustock (redirect from Porthoustock Lifeboat Station)
Manacle Point, has been the location for numerous shipwrecks. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) stationed a lifeboat at Porthoustock in 1869...
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MV Lovat (category Ships built in the Netherlands)
of thirteen were saved, rescued by the crew of the Solomon Browne of Penlee Lifeboat Station and the crew of a Westland Whirlwind from RNAS Culdrose...
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National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) stations are the bases for the RNLI's fleet of search and rescue lifeboats that cover the coastal waters around the entire...
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Falmouth Lifeboat Station is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) search and rescue operations at Falmouth, Cornwall in the United Kingdom...
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Lifeboat Station is an RNLI station located in the town of Newhaven in the English county of East Sussex in the United Kingdom. The original station was...
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List of shipwrecks of Cornwall (20th century) (category Lists of shipwrecks of the United Kingdom)
on the eastern side of the Lizard. Three men were saved by the Lizard lifeboat ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution) and the rest along with the Captain's...
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Porthleven (redirect from Porthleven Lifeboat Station)
nearby. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution stationed a lifeboat at Porthleven in 1863. A boat house was built at Breageside, from where the boat was...
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Coverack (section Coverack lifeboat)
in 1885. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) stationed a lifeboat at Coverack in 1901 following the wreck of the SS Mohegan on The Manacles...
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Mullion Cove (redirect from Mullion Cove Lifeboat Station)
the bay and went ashore at Gunwalloe Church Cove, and at Polurrian. The Mullion Lifeboat was seen to try and follow one boat towards the Lizard. The Porthleven...
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The Tyne-class lifeboat was a class of lifeboat that served as a part of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution fleet until 2019. They were named after...
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2021 New Year Honours (category 2021 awards in the United Kingdom)
(Llanidloes, Powys) Edward Nuzum. Lifeboat Operations Manager, The Lizard Lifeboat Station. For services to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and to Maritime...
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Caerthillian to Kennack (category Lizard Peninsula)
off the coast are a notorious hazard to shipping and have led to numerous shipwrecks. The Lizard Lifeboat Station is located within the SSSI. The area's...
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List of shipwrecks of Cornwall (1881–1890) (category Lists of shipwrecks of the United Kingdom)
wreckage was washed into Polpeor Cove. The crew of seventeen were saved by the Lizard lifeboat ( Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was carrying sleepers...
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RNLB Guide of Dunkirk (ON 826) (category Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboats by name)
RNLI Lifeboats Liddell, Alix (1976). Story of the Girl Guides 1938-1975. London: Girl Guides Association. "The Lizard History". Royal National Lifeboat Institution...
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Wherrytown (section Lifeboat station)
bottom of Alexandra Road, near the Coastguard Station and the lifeboat was stationed there until 1885, when the lifeboat returned to Penzance. In or about...
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