 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 |
| Commissioned | 19 February 1814, Salem |
| Renamed | 5 March 1814 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen | 56, or 60 (bm) |
| Sail plan | Schooner |
| Complement | 32, or 35 |
| 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. 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. The Vice admiralty records show the master as B.Cook.
Citations
- ^ Kert (2015), App.2.
- ^ Vice-Admiralty Court (1911), p. 134.
- "No. 16876". The London Gazette. 2 April 1814. p. 700.
References
- 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.