Lizard Tamar lifeboat appeal

We need your help to raise £1.8M towards the cost of a new Tamar class lifeboat for The Lizard lifeboat station crew.

'To meet the increasing and ever diverse demands on our services it is vital that we have a new Tamar class lifeboat. This will allow us to respond to some incidents quicker whilst keeping the crew safe’.
Coxswain Phil Burgess.

Please support our campaign to ensure The Lizard crew have the best lifeboat and equipment to continue their proud tradition of saving lives at sea.

The new Tamar class lifeboat

Compared with the current 22-year-old Tyne class boat, the new Tamar will be faster, more highly-equipped and even safer for our volunteer crews when they are called out to help others. Because of The Lizard’s remote location, many of the shouts take place in exposed seas, and the lifeboat is often at sea for many hours at a stretch. As a result it is important that we equip the crew with the safest and newest technology available.The naming rights are available until 31 December 2010, subject to an agreed donation.

The Lizard lifeboat station sits on one of the most remote and rugged settings in the whole of Great Britain – at the foot of a 45m 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. The current station was built in 1961 to house the Tyne class lifeboat, David Robinson, but with the iminent arrival of the new Tamar class, a better equipped station is now being planned.