Lizard (1814 ship)
 HMS Prometheus captures US privateer Lizard, March 1814
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | Lizard |
| Owner | Stephen White Jr., Stephen White, Thomas M.Woodbridge, Samuel Kennedy[1] |
| Commissioned | 19 February 1814,[1] Salem |
| Renamed | 5 March 1814 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen | 56,[1] or 60[2] (bm) |
| Sail plan | Schooner |
| Complement | 32,[2] or 35[1] |
| Armament | 2 guns |
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 12 days and had made no captures.[3] Prometheus sent Lizard into Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the Vice admiralty court condemned her.
American sources gave the name of Lizard's master as Samuel Loring.[1] The Vice admiralty records show the master as B.Cook.[2]
Citations[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Kert (2015), App.2.
- ^ a b c Vice-Admiralty Court (1911), p. 134.
- ^ "No. 16876". The London Gazette. 2 April 1814. p. 700.
References[edit]
- Kert, Faye M. (2015). Privateering: Patriots and Profits in the War of 1812. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 72. ISBN 9781421417479.
- Vice-Admiralty Court, Halifax (1911). American vessels captured by the British during the revolution and war of 1812. Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute.