HMS Lizard (1757)

For other ships of 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 & type: 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate
Tons burthen: 5948794 (bm)
Length:
  • 118 ft 8 12 in (36.2 m) (gundeck)
  • 97 ft 2 34 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

HMS Lizard was a 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.

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

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

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