Lizard was laid down on 1 January 1911 during the building programme of 1910–11 by Cammell Laird and Company of Birkenhead. She was launched on 10 October 1911.[1] She had two funnels, each with red and white funnel bands. Capable of 28 knots (52 km/h), she carried two 4-inch (102 mm) guns, other smaller guns and 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes and had a complement of 72 men.
On 19 January 1918 the two German-Turkish ships SMS Breslau and Goeben passed through the Dardanelles to the Aegean. The two ships were shadowed by a Royal Navyflotilla that was stationed there to intercept them, of which Lizard was a part, along with Raglan, M28 and Tigress. The German ships outgunned their opposition, sinking the two monitors, M28 and Raglan, but subsequently ran into a minefield. Breslau struck a mine and sank immediately, with the loss of 330 men. Goeben was damaged but managed to escape. Prior to this she had taken part in the 1917, Battle of Jaffa.
Otranto Barrage
During April 1918, as part of the 1918 Naval campaign in the Adriatic, Lizard was deployed to the Corfu division of the Otranto Barrage destroyer patrol.[3]
Disposal
Lizard was sold on 4 November 1921[4] to Rees of Llanelli for breaking.[1]
^Halpern, Paul G (2004). The Battle of the Otranto Straits: Controlling the Gateway to the Adriatic in World War I. Indiana University Press. ISBN978-0-253-34379-6.