HMS Lizard

HMS Lizard

Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS "Lizard" after The Lizard, a peninsula in Cornwall.

*HMS "Lizard" was a sail frigate launched in 1757 and hulked in 1800.

*HMS "Lizard" was a wooden hulled ship launched in 1840 and which collided with French paddle sloop Veloce off Spain on 24 July 1843. [ [http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=1702 Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Lizard ] ]

*HMS "Lizard" was an iron hulled gunboat with three guns launched in 1844. [ [http://www.pdavis.nl/ShowShip.php?id=1703 Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Lizard ] ]

* The twelfth "Lizard" was an "Acheron"-class destroyer built by Cammell Laird and launched in 1911 that served in World War I and was sold in 1921.

*HMS "Lizard" was also a Combined Operations Landing Craft base, at Shoreham, West Sussex, UK. The base was commissioned on 7 October 1942; reduced to Care & Maintenance status on 21 October 1945; and closed on 31 December 1945. It was home to 803 LCV(P) Flotilla in 1943 and 1944.

References

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* B. Warlow, "Shore Establishments of the Royal Navy" (second edition), Maritime Books, Liskeard, 2000. ISBN 0-907771-73-4.


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