RNLI Lizard Lifeboat Station
The Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall has one of the most remote and treacherous coastlines in the UK making the Lizard lifeboat station one of the most important lifeboat stations in the country.
The station's design had to safeguard the environment and re-use as much existing structure as possible. Set at the base of a 45m cliff, a twin-engine Tamar class lifeboat sits ready for launch in the boathouse. When called out, it slides down a slipway into deep water.
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Lizard lifeboat launch
25/03/17 to aid of yacht disabled off Lizard Point and towed to Penzance.
lifeboat station THE LIZARD CORNWALL
taken from my 3.2 meter asw rc glider flying around the lizard lifeboat station
The Lizard Lifeboat Station
DJI Phantom 3 quadcopter - January 2016 flight
Aerial Cornwall : RNLI The Lizard Lifeboat Launch
A practice launch of the lifeboat at The Lizard Lifeboat Station.
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It's a great launch to watch if you're in the area. Normally every week Tuesdays or Wednesdays at 18:30.
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Lizard Lifeboat Station, Kilcobben Cove,Cornwall
This view on a very calm summers day one could only imagine whats it like during stormy weather conditions, when they are be called out in response to a call out.
The Lizard Lifeboat Station sits in one of the most remote and rugged settings in the whole of Great Britain – at the foot of a 140ft (45 metre) cliff less than a mile from England’s most southerly point. Its wild location means that every time the boat is launched, the crew have to run down more than 200 steep steps from the station car-park to the boathouse in Kilcobben Cove.
Lizard Point has been a navigation marker for seafarers since prehistoric times and is mentioned as early as 250 BC. Countless ships and lives have been lost in its treacherous waters – but in the last 150 years, many have also been saved by successive Lizard lifeboats.
There have been RNLI lifeboats at The Lizard since 1859. From 1867 until 1963 there was also a lifeboat at Cadgwith, a couple of miles east along the coast.
The first lifeboat station was at the most southerly point, Polpeor, and in 1885 another station was built at nearby Church Cove, a mile or so to the east. That station closed in 1899 but the Polpeor station continued right through until 1961. Meanwhile a Cadgwith station was opened in 1867 and remained in action until 1963.
When the previous boathouse at Kilcobben opened in 1961, the station became known as The Lizard Cadgwith Lifeboat Station. The name was officially changed in 1987 to its present The Lizard Lifeboat Station.
A series of boats have served the stations over the years, ranging from the original £135, six-oared, 30ft Anna Maria in 1859 to the present £2.7m, twin engine, 53ft Tamar class lifeboat Rose (16-20) official number 1300.
Places to see in ( Lizard - UK )
Places to see in ( Lizard - UK )
The Lizard is a peninsula in southern Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The most southerly point of the British mainland is near Lizard Point at grid reference SW 701,115. Lizard village is the most southerly on the British mainland, and is in the civil parish of Landewednack; the most southerly parish. The valleys of the River Helford and Loe Pool form the northern boundary, with the rest of the peninsula surrounded by sea.
The area measures about 14 by 14 miles (23 km × 23 km). The Lizard is one of England's natural regions and has been designated as national character area 157 by Natural England. The peninsula is known for its geology and for its rare plants and lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park.
The name Lizard is most probably a corruption of the Cornish name Lys Ardh, meaning high court; it is purely coincidental that much of the peninsula is composed of a rock called serpentinite. The Lizard peninsula's original name may have been the Celtic name Predannack (British one); during the Iron Age (Pytheas c. 325 BC) and Roman period, Britain was known as Pretannike (in Greek) and as Albion (and Britons the Pretani).
The Lizard's coast is particularly hazardous to shipping and the seaways round the peninsula were historically known as the Graveyard of Ships (see below). The Lizard Lighthouse was built at Lizard Point in 1752 and the RNLI operates The Lizard lifeboat station.
Mullion has the 15th century church of St Mellanus, and the Old Inn from the 16th century. The harbour was completed in 1895 and financed by Lord Robartes of Lanhydrock as a recompense to the fishermen for several disastrous pilchard seasons. The small church of St Peter in Coverack, built in 1885 for £500, has a serpentinite pulpit.
The Great Western Railway operated a road motor service to The Lizard from Helston railway station. Commencing on 17 August 1903, it was the first successful British railway-run bus service and was initially provided as a cheaper alternative to a proposed light railway. The Solar eclipse of 11 August 1999 departed the UK mainland from the Lizard.
( Lizard - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Lizard . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Lizard - UK
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WE'RE OFF TO SEE THE LIZARD
....actually Lizard Point - the most southerly point of the British mainland, and the scene of the RNLI's largest rescue mission in 1907 (16 June 2011) Many more St Ives and Cornwall videos here
The Lizard Life Boat Launch - Cornwall
Short video made of some clips i took in Cornwall Lizard between 2013-2015
You Got - LiamLRY
Lizard Lifeboat Station Funicular Railway
Cromer Lifeboat Returning to Boatshed
The Cromer RNLI lifeboat being dragged back up into its boatshed.
The old lizard lifeboat station
In this video we look at some of the original features of the original lifeboat station
Fisherman with serious injury evacuated from trawler by Lizard RNLI crew
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the new and old lizard lifeboat
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RNLB Storm Rider Visits the Old Penlee Slipway at Mousehole
Wednesday 23rd September 2015: With retired St. Ives Coxswain Tommy Cocking at the helm and Lowestoft Coxswain John Fox among the crew, RNLB Storm Rider stops by the old Penlee RNLI slipway to say hello to The Lifeboat Station Project whilst on passage to St. Ives.
Filmed by Jack Lowe with exit footage by Peter Naylor of Schoolhouse Digital.
Kayak Cornwall: Coverack to Lizard Lifeboat Station
Kevin and I are joined by Guy and Ross on a kayak paddle from Coverack to Lizard Lifeboat Station and back. A very pleasant trip in smooth sea with virtually no waves or swell.
To read more about this and other kayak trips around Cornwall go to my blog at:
Music: XCOM - Battlescape ambient music (fanmade)
Tramore RNLI lifeboat station - Phantom 3 quadcopter
Phantom 3 quadcopter aerial video
Storm Callum at The Lizard, Cornwall.
Wave watching at The Lizard
Lifeboat Training in England
At the Lizard Lifeboat Station in Cornwall. These folks are awesome.
New Lifeboats Launched By Duke Of Edinburgh (1961)
Kilcobben Cove, The Lizard, Cornwall.
MS. Head on Lizard life boat. LS. Ditto. at bottom of slip way. MS. Two of crew. MS. as lifeboat goes down slipway into Cove pan with lifeboat as it sails round Cove. MS. Lifeboat coming along side jetty. MS.Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, as he climbs ashore and is handed a box of lobsters by one of crew. CU. Name on bows of lifeboat Lizard-Cadgwith Lifeboat. MS. Deck of boat. MS. RNLI Flag flying. MS. Looking out of station doors with lifeboat at top of slip way. Shot of holiday makers on cliff top. Lifeboat at bottom of slip way MS. Holiday makers on cliff top MS. Pan with Duke as he arrives. MS. Duke being introduced to crew. Two shots Duke coming down a lifeboat lift. LS. Duke climbing aboard lifeboat. Various shots from top of cliff of cove and holiday a makers ice cream eaters etc. MS. RNLI Flag flying. CU. Coxswain George Edward Mitchell CUs. of the other members of crew. MS. Crew and wives lined up in readiness to receive Duke. LS. of Duke's helicopter as it approaches cliff top.
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