HMS Lizard (1757)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Lizard.

History

Great Britain
Name:	HMS Lizard
Ordered:	13 April 1756
Builder:	Henry Bird, Globe Stairs, Rotherhithe
Laid down:	5 May 1756
Launched:	7 April 1757
Completed:	1 June 1757 at Deptford Dockyard
Commissioned:	March 1757
Fate:	Hulked as a hospital ship, 1800 Sold, 1828
General characteristics
Class and type:	28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate
Tons burthen:	594 ⁸⁷⁄₉₄ (bm)
Length:	118 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in (36.2 m) (gundeck) 97 ft 2 ³⁄₄ in (29.6 m) (keel)
Beam:	33 ft 11 in (10.3 m)
Depth of hold:	10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Sail plan:	Full-rigged ship
Complement:	200 officers and men
Armament:	28 guns comprising: Upperdeck: 24 × 9-pounder guns Quarterdeck: 4 × 3-pounder guns 12 × ½-pdr swivel guns

On 24 January 1782 she captured the French 16-gun cutter Espion.

The ship served in North America and the West Indies^[1]

References

Robert Gardiner, The First Frigates, Conway Maritime Press, London 1992. ISBN 0-85177-601-9.
David Lyon, The Sailing Navy List, Conway Maritime Press, London 1993. ISBN 0-85177-617-5.
Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714 to 1792, Seaforth Publishing, London 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.
Winfield, Rif (2007). British Warships of the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1-86176-246-1.

Coventry-class frigates

Batch 1	Coventry Lizard Liverpool Maidstone

Batch 2	Boreas Hussar Shannon Trent Actaeon

Batch 3	Active Aquilon Cerberus Griffin Levant Argo Milford Guadeloupe Carysfort

Batch 4	Hind Laurel (cancelled)

Preceded by: Lowestoffe class Followed by: Mermaid class List of frigate classes of the Royal Navy

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