HMS Lizard
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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.[1]
- HMS Lizard was an iron hulled gunboat with three guns launched in 1844.[2]
- 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
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
- B. Warlow, Shore Establishments of the Royal Navy (second edition), Maritime Books, Liskeard, 2000. ISBN 0-907771-73-4.
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