Weather the Lizard was a nautical term used commonly in the 18th century Royal Navy and referred to making sail from either

Plymouth Plymouth () is a port city and unitary authority in South West England. It is located on the south coast of Devon, approximately south-west of Exeter and south-west of London. It is bordered by Cornwall to the west and south-west. Plymouth ...

or Portsmouth and setting sail by Cornwall Peninsula (referred to as " the Lizard") with the land on the starboard side of the ship. In the television adaptation of "

Horatio Hornblower Horatio Hornblower is a fictional officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, the protagonist of a series of novels and stories by C. S. Forester. He later became the subject of films, radio and television programmes, an ...

", an order is given to weather the lizard in the episode '' Hornblower:Mutiny''.

References

* Croix, P.D. (2003). ''Patrick O'Brian's Navy''. London: Salamander Books. Nautical terminology Lizard Peninsula {{navy-stub