HMS Lizard (1757)
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HMS Lizard was a 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, with periods of service between 1757 and 1828. Named after the Lizard, a peninsula in southern Cornwall, she was intended a
Lizard was ordered to be built to the same design as HMS Carysfort (pictured)
Charles Inglis, Lizard's captain in 1770–1771
Charles Inglis was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years' War, and the American War of Independence, rising to the rank of rear-admira
HMS Lizard (1757)
…escort a British expedition to retake the settlement. Lizard was available for this purpose, and so was recommissioned in October 1770 under Captain Charles Inglis for Falklands service. However her departure from Portsmouth was delayed by the need for further repairs. She was still fitting out at Portsmouth in…
The Battle of the Saintes, 12 April 1782: surrender of the Ville de Paris by Thomas Whitcombe, painted 1783