Coverack Lifeboat Station was located on the harbour, in Coverack, a small fishing village about 11 miles (18 km) south east of Helston, on the south-east coast of the county of Cornwall. A lifeboat station was first established at Coverack in 1901, by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). After operating for 79 years, Coverack Lifeboat Station closed on 27 March 1980.
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Coverack is a coastal village and fishing port in Cornwall, UK. It lies in the parish of St Keverne, on the east side of the Lizard peninsula about nine miles south of Falmouth.
Coverack has several hotels and a youth hostel. The area is a centre for watersports, particularly wind surfing, sailing and diving. The nearby rocks known as the Manacles have been the site of many shipwrecks and as a consequence are now a favourite diving destination.
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Coverack to Porthoustock is a coastal Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cornwall, England, UK, noted for both its biological and geological characteristics. The site contains four ICUN Red List plant species.
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Kennack to Coverack is a coastal Site of Special Scientific Interest on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, England, UK, noted for both its biological and geological interest. It is of botanical importance, with 8 Red Data Book of rare and endangered plant species being found on the site as well as other nationally scarce varieties.
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The Three Brothers of Grugith is a prehistoric site, a dolmen of the Neolithic Age, near St Keverne in Cornwall, England. It is a scheduled monument.
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Zoar is a hamlet on the Lizard Peninsula in south Cornwall, England, UK. It is situated 1+1⁄2 miles northwest of the coastal village of Coverack. The name of the hamlet comes from the Zoara in the Bible.