HMS Lizard was an Acheron-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She is named for the Lizard peninsula in the county of Cornwall in England. and was...
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and broken up in 1869. HMS Lizard (1886) was a composite screw gunvessel launched in 1886 and sold in 1905. HMS Lizard (1911) was an Acheron-class destroyer...
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Cruiser – HMS Argonaut Association". Retrieved 14 August 2021. "HMS Badsworth, escort destroyer". www.naval-history.net. Retrieved 14 August 2021. "HMS Beaufort...
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Lizard was a United States privateer schooner commissioned at Salem on 19 February 1814. HMS Prometheus captured Lizard on 5 March. Lizard had been out...
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HMS Phoenix was an Acheron-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She is named for the mythical bird, and was the fifteenth ship of the Royal Navy...
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instructor in Britannia.[clarification needed] He was given his first command, HMS Lizard (1886) Bramble-class gunboat, in June 1902. This gunboat had only a short...
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HMS Tigress was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during World War I. She was built under the 1910–11 shipbuilding programme by...
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HMS Daedalus was a nineteenth-century warship of the Royal Navy. She was launched as a fifth-rate frigate of 46 guns of the Modified Leda class in 1826...
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Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
September 1782 during the Anglo-French War. His first command was the sloop Lizard in October 1782. Promoted to post-captain on 1 January 1783, Troubridge...
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the gunboat HMS Lizard on the Australia Station in September 1894. Promoted to lieutenant on 1 October 1895, he transferred to the cruiser HMS Furious in...
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navigation, so they intended to use instead the Lizard lighthouse on Lizard Point, Cornwall (known simply as "The Lizard"). At 10:15 pm the lighthouse was sighted...
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Govan (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
(1910) HMS New Zealand (1911) HMAS Sydney (1912) RMS Empress of Russia (1913) RMS Empress of Asia (1913) SS Calgarian (1913) HMS Valiant (1914) HMS Renown...
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Division / 1st D.F. HMS Badger: Cdr Charles Albert Fremantle HMS Lizard: Lt Cdr Edward Brooke HMS Goshawk: Cdr Dashwood Fowler Moir HMS Lapwing: Lt Cdr Alexander...
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1693–1697 HMS Maidstone 1693 HMS Jersey 1694 HMS Lizard (i) 1694 HMS Newport 1694 HMS Falcon 1694 HMS Queenborough 1694 HMS Swan 1694 HMS Drake 1694 HMS Solebay...
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Flotilla from the destroyer HMS Javelin. On 29 November 1940 the 5th Flotilla engaged three German destroyers off Lizard Point, Cornwall. Mountbatten...
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Tierra del Fuego (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
latter expedition named Cape Horn at Hornos Island. On his first voyage with HMS Beagle in 1830, Robert FitzRoy picked up four native Fuegians, including...
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completed 30 June 1886. HMS Lizard, gun boat for British Admiralty, launched 27 November 1886, completed 4 February 1887, scrapped 1905. HMS Bramble, gun boat...
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afire. The explosion killed three men. HMS Egeria is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of lizard, Cryptoblepharus egeriae. "Naval Sloops...
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Greenhithe, in 1938 where she became an auxiliary cadet training ship alongside HMS Worcester. By 1954, she had ceased to be useful as a cadet ship and was transferred...
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Gozo (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
will often see the Maltese wall lizard. The lizard was originally thought to be a variety of the common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) of mainland Europe...
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Alexander Agassiz (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Alexander Agassiz is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of lizard, Anolis agassizi, and a fish, Leptochilichthys agassizii. A statue of Alexander...
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Water during the Falklands War. British destroyer HMS Coventry and British frigates HMS Ardent and HMS Antelope are all sunk by bombs from Argentine light...
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crew. 28 November – HMS Javelin ( Royal Navy) was badly damaged during a sea battle about 15 miles (24 km) south–east of Lizard Point. Under artillery...
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the Titanic and Great Disasters of the Sea. Eekelers, Dirk; Lettens, Jan. "HMS Coronation (north part) [+1691]". wrecksite. Retrieved 15 May 2021. "Harwich...
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coins 7 February 2014 Description: The coin depicts in the foreground a lizard sculpture which is the Park Güell emblem and was designed by the architect...
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Ushant (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
line for traditional all-oceans circumnavigations is between Ushant and Lizard Point. There is a single school situated on the island; L'École D'Ouessant...
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built by Philip Tilden in 1911 for Brian Tunstall-Behrens, but was never completed due to the Great War. In April 1947 HMS Warspite ran aground here whilst...
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the command of Captain Henry Lidgbird Ball of HMS Daedalus. Daedalus, HMS Sybille, HMS Centurion and HMS Braave entered the area, which they referred to...
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SMS Goeben (category 1911 ships)
Retreating to the Dardanelles and pursued by the British destroyers HMS Lizard and Tigress, she was intentionally beached near Nagara Point just outside...
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the Western Rocks and the Gilstone Reef, where Admiral Shovell's flagship HMS Association was wrecked in the great naval disaster of 1707. Shovell's remains...
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