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Lizard Crew
The Lizard all weather Tyne class lifeboat is now located at Kilcobben
Cove. Operating for over 145 years, the crews have been presented with 12 awards for gallantry.
Since 1751 there has been a lighthouse on Lizard Point, warning shipping of
the dangers of this beautiful but treacherous coastline. Just offshore are the Man o' War rocks. Below the point is the Old Lifeboat House. The present
lifeboat station is a few miles east of the headland. On the 10th November 1721, thirty years before the lighthouse was built, 15 of the crew of the Royal Anne
Galley lost their lives when the vessel was dashed against the cliffs in a storm. They are buried in a mass grave on Pistol Meadow, the grass slope just west
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