HMS Lizard (1911)

HMS Lizard
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Lizard
Builder	Cammell Laird and Company of Birkenhead
Laid down	1 January 1911
Launched	10 October 1911[1]
Fate	Sold 4 November 1921[1]
General characteristics
Class and type	Acheron-class destroyer
Displacement	990 tons
Length	75 m (246 ft)
Beam	7.8 m (26 ft)
Draught	2.7 m (8.9 ft)
Propulsion	Three shaft Parsons Turbines Three Yarrow boilers (oil fired) 13,500 shp
Speed	28 knots (52 km/h)
Complement	72
Armament	2 × BL 4-inch (101.6 mm) L/40 Mark VIII guns, mounting P Mark V 2 × QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun, mounting P Mark I 2 × single tubes for 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes

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 the twelfth ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name.