Jump to content

Lizard (1814 ship)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

HMS Prometheus captures US privateer Lizard, March 1814
History
United States
NameLizard
OwnerStephen White Jr., Stephen White, Thomas M.Woodbridge, Samuel Kennedy[1]
Commissioned19 February 1814,[1] Salem
Renamed5 March 1814
General characteristics
Tons burthen56,[1] or 60[2] (bm)
Sail planSchooner
Complement32,[2] or 35[1]
Armament2 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]
  1. ^ a b c d e Kert (2015), App.2.
  2. ^ a b c Vice-Admiralty Court (1911), p. 134.
  3. ^ "No. 16876". The London Gazette. 2 April 1814. p. 700.

References

[edit]