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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Penlee Lifeboat Station
    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Tamar-class lifeboat
    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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  • 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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  • Thumbnail for Newquay Lifeboat Station
    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Civil Service lifeboats
    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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  • Thumbnail for List of RNLI stations
    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Falmouth Lifeboat Station
    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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  • 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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Newhaven Lifeboat Station
    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Tyne-class lifeboat
    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • Thumbnail for Arancia-class lifeboat
    operated by the RNLI include the X-class lifeboat, XP-class lifeboat and Y-class lifeboat. The RNLI have placed Arancias at lifeboat stations to supplement...
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