Battle off Lizard Point

Battle off Lizard Point
	Part of the Eighty Years' War
	; Battle between Dutch and Spanish men-of-war. Oil on copper, Naval Museum of Madrid.
Date	18 February 1637
Location	Off Lizard Point, Cornwall, England
Result	Spanish victory
Belligerents
Dutch Republic	Spain
Commanders and leaders
Unknown	Admiral Miguel de Horna
Strength
6 men-of-war; 44 merchant ships	6 galleons; 2 frigates
Casualties and losses
3 warships sunk; 3 warships captured; 14 merchant ships; captured	No ships lost

The Battle off Lizard Point was a naval action which took place on 18 February 1637 off the coast of Cornwall, England, during the Eighty Years' War. The Spanish admiral Miguel de Horna, commander of the Armada of Flanders, intercepted an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by six warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them, and returned safely to his base in Dunkirk.

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