HMS Lizard

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

• 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.

[edit] References

• J. J. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, Greenhill Books, 1987.
• B. Warlow, Shore Establishments of the Royal Navy (second edition), Maritime Books, Liskeard, 2000. ISBN 0-907771-73-4.