Digital Slideshows & Presentations of Porthleven... one of the most Picturesque Villages in Cornwall

Lizard Boats

Lizard Point is for many ships the starting point of their ocean passage and a notorious shipping hazard.

The first sighting of the Spanish Armada on mainland Britain was off Lizard Point at 3pm on the 29 July 1588. This was one of the greatest invasion fleets in history and comprised of 120 ships with 29,000 men on board.

On 15 January 2004 the French fishing trawler Bugaled Breizh (child of Brittany) was sunk off Lizard Point with the loss of five lives. There were claims at the time by French marine accident experts that the vessel may have been pulled under when her nets became tangled in a British or Dutch submarine who were conducting NATO exercises in the area at the time.