HMS Lizard (1757)
Lizard was built to the same design as HMS Carysfort, (pictured)
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| 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 |
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| Class and type: | 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate |
| Tons burthen: | 594 87⁄94 (bm) |
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| 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 |
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HMS Lizard was a 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.
Lizard was an oak-built 28-gun sixth-rate, one of 18 vessels forming part of the Coventry class of frigates. As with others in her class she was loosely modeled on the design and external dimensions of HMS Tartar, launched in 1756 and responsible for capturing five French privateers in her first twelve months at sea. The Admiralty Order to build the Coventry-class vessels was made after the outbreak of the Seven Years' War, and at a time in which the Royal Dockyards were fully engaged in constructing or fitting-out the Navy's ships of the line. Consequently, despite Navy Board misgivings about reliability and cost, contracts for all but one of Coventry-class vessels were issued to private shipyards with an emphasis on rapid completion of the task.
Contracts for Lizard's construction were issued on 13 April 1756 to shipwright Henry Bird of Globe Stairs Rotherhithe. It was stipulated that work should be completed within twelve months for a 28-gun vessel measuring approximately 590 tons burthen. Subject to satisfactory completion, Bird would receive a fee of £9.9s per ton to be paid through periodic imprests drawn against the Navy Board. Private shipyards were not subject to rigorous naval oversight, and the Admiralty therefore granted authority for "such alterations withinboard as shall be judged necessary" in order to cater for the preferences or ability of individual shipwrights, and for experimentation with internal design.
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