| LIFEBOAT ANNA MARIA. | ||
| Lives Saved. | ||
| 1861. | Aug. 10.—Schooner, Hurrell, Penzance | 4 |
| 1868. | March 27.—Schooner, Selina, Swansea | 2 |
| 1873. | " 1.—Barque, Fomahault, Griefswald | 11 |
| 1879. | June 15.—Brig, Scotscraig, Dundee | 9 |
| 1882. | Aug. 9.—s.s. Mosel, Bremen | 27 |
| LIFEBOAT EDMUND AND FANNY. | ||
| 1886. | Sept. 28.—s.s. Suffolk, London | 24 |
| 1887. | March 13.—Schooner, Gipsy Queen, Padstow | 5 |
| 1888. | " 10.—Barque, Lady Dufferin, Plymouth | 17 |
| 1893. | " 4.—s.s. Gustav Bitter, Newcastle | 3 |
| 1897. | Nov. 23.—s.s. Landore, Liverpool | 12 |
| 1898. | Aug. 6.—Barque, Vortigern, London | — |
| 1900. | Nov. 24.—Glint, Stavanger | 4 |
| LIFEBOAT ADMIRAL SIR GEORGE BACK. | ||
| 1907. | March 17-18.—s.s. Suevic, Liverpool | 167 |
| 1907. | July 23.—Ketch, Fanny, Bideford | 3 |
The bald, unvarnished statement in this list under date of March 17th to 18th, 1907, giving the list of saved from the Suevic, hides the very narrow escape of the passengers and crew of that White Star liner. She was homeward-bound from Australia, and had on board between three and four hundred passengers, and a cargo of frozen meat. In the middle of the night she struck upon the Brandies Rocks, immediately under the Lizard lighthouse; thus affording another extraordinary instance of the fatal attraction this, the most salient southerly point of land in England, has for vessels, in spite of the lighthouse exhibiting the most powerful light in the world. The Lizard, Cadgwith and Mullion lifeboats put out, on hearing the news, and landed many of the passengers, and one hundred and forty were taken off by the tug Triton of Falmouth. Fortunately the weather was moderate. The hull was severed by dynamite about a week later, and towed round to Falmouth.
Scattered reefs stretch out beyond Lizard Point, and form the special dangers of the place. They are known in general as "The Stags." A vessel, wrecked on the Stags about 1845, was driven on to the island rock of Crenval, where the crew refuged all night, while the good ship was being reduced to matchwood by the waves. The next morning they were brought ashore, and were greeted by their own cat, which had either swum to land, or had been carried on the wreckage. Its tail had somehow been nipped off in the process. The cat was sold to an innkeeper in Lizard Town, and was long looked upon as very much of a hero.
Immediately to the eastward of the lighthouse is the funnel formed in the cliffs by the falling in of the roof of a cave known as Daws' Hugo. This subsidence happened on February 19th, 1847, and the hollow thus produced was immediately given the name of "Lion's Den." Beyond it is Housel Bay, with a hotel on the cliffs. The rugged Penolver Head comes next, and then the amphitheatrical Belidden Cove, with Beast, or Bass Point, enclosing it. Lloyd's signalling station, displaying the word LLOYD'S in gigantic letters on its sea-front, stands on Beast Point. Hence inward and outward-bound ships are telegraphed to London as having "passed the Lizard." Beyond Hot Point, the next headland, the coast comes to Kilcobbin Cove and again to Church Cove.
CHAPTER XI
KYNANCE COVE—ASPARAGUS ISLAND—THE DEVIL'S POST-OFFICE—SIGNPOSTS—GUE GRAZE—MULLION COVE—WRECK OF THE "JONKHEER"—MARY MUNDY AND THE "OLD INN"
From Polpear Cove to Kynance Cove is a tramp to be undertaken only by the leisured. The distance is but four miles along the cliffs, but the hurried persons who oftenest come to the Lizard have not the time or the inclination for it, and go direct across from Lizard Town.
The way to Kynance Cove from Lizard Town is strictly a pedestrian's journey and lies largely upon the tops of hedges. Those who have never yet made the acquaintance of a Cornish hedge cannot fail to be surprised at this, but a hedge in the Home Counties and a hedge in the West Country are apt to be very different things, and a Cornish hedge is generally a substantial bank of stones and earth, not infrequently with a broad, well-defined footpath on top. Such hedges are those that partly conduct to Kynance Cove.