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.

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 0907771734.

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