Lizard Point, Cornwall to discover more about the local rocks. The first sighting of the Spanish Armada on mainland Britain was off Lizard Point at 3 pm on 29 July 1588. This was one of the greatest invasion fleets in history and consisted of 120 ships armed with over 1,000 cannon and with 29,000 men on board. The Battle at the Lizard, a naval battle, took place off The Lizard on 21 October 1707. The bulk coaster carrier MV "Ardgarry" (1957) was lost in a heavy storm, in over 30 ft (9m) high waves, off Lizard Point on 29 December 1962. All 12
Southerly (band) set to release their new full length, "Storyteller and the Gossip Columnist", in May 2007 on Portland's Greyday Records. Southerly (band) Southerly is a United States musical act, a solo project of Krist Kreuger. The Madison, Wisconsin native started the project in 2001, releasing an EP, but put it on hiatus to focus on building his own independent booking agency, "The Crow Agency". After picking the project back up, he took it on tour across the United States, Canada, and Paraguay. Relocating to Portland in 2006 (and forming into a full band with Robert Bartleson on bass guitar, Ryan Heise