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of the

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have been named ''Lizard'' after

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, a

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. Ships * was a ship listed between 1512 and 1522. * was a 16-gun

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ship captured by the Parliamentarians in 1652 and expended in 1666. * was a 4-gun sloop launched in 1673 and captured by the Dutch in 1674. * was a 24-gun

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launched in 1694 and wrecked in 1696. * was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1697 and sold in 1714. * was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1744 and wrecked on 27 February 1747 (Some sources give 1748 but 1747 did not start on 1 January) * was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1757, used for harbour service from 1795 and sold in 1828. * was the French ''Cerf''-class

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''Lézard'' of eighteen 6-pounder guns, built by Jacques and Daniel Denys at Dunkirk and launched on 10 March 1781. She was captured on 2 October 1782 in the roads of the neutral (Danish) port of

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and taken to Bombay. There she was released back to France in 1783, after she had been present at the Battle of Cuddalore, and re-entered on the lists in January 1784. She was broken up in 1784.Demerliac (1996), p.88, #584. * was a wooden paddle vessel launched in 1840 and sunk in 1843 in a collision with the French paddle sloop ''Veloce''. * was an iron paddle gunboat launched in 1844 and broken up in 1869. * was a composite screw gunvessel launched in 1886 and sold in 1905. * was an launched in 1911 and sold in 1921. Shore establishments * was a Combined Operations Landing Craft base, at Shoreham,

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, commissioned in 1942 and closed in 1945.

Notes

# Until 1752, the year began on

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(25 March) Thus 24 March 1747 was followed by 25 March 1748. 31 December 1748 was followed by 1 January 1748.

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