List of Royal Navy ships in North America explained

List of Royal Navy ships in North America is an annotated list of some of the Royal Navy ships serving in Canada, the Thirteen Colonies and Caribbean under the North American Station.

List

Ship names and details
 Ship name Type Launched Ship details Fate
32-gun ship of the line1675 Harwich, EnglandCornered in Bay Bulls Harbour by a French squadron in September 1696. Her master, Captain Thomas Cleasby, in fear that the French would capture the ship, scuttled her.
50-gun ship of the line1775 in Portsmouth, EnglandDestroyed in 1814 off Anticosti Island, Quebec
Schooner1798 – Kingston, OntarioSunk in Lake Ontario off Brighton, Ontario in 1804
Unfinished vessel was being built in York, Upper Canada – now TorontoBurned and destroyed during War of 1812
6-gun brig; 200 tons1812 – Detroit, MichiganCaptured by British forces and renamed DetroitBurned in 1813
12- or 14-gun schooner, 305 tons1813 in Amherstburg, OntarioCaptured by Americans and renamed in 1813Sold in 1825
36-gun frigate1814 in Île aux Noix, Lake Champlain – near Plattsburgh, New YorkServed on Lake ChamplainCaptured by Americans and sold in 1825
16-gun brig1814 in Île aux Noix, Lake Champlain – near Plattsburgh, New YorkServed on Lake Champlain; capture 1814
(I)4-gun schooner1807 in BermudaSunk off Halifax, Nova Scotia 1812
/ HMS Chubb (II) / HMS Shannon11-gun sloop captured from the Americans (ex-); 110 tons1812? Served on Lake Champlain; captured 1813 and renamed Shannon (and later as Chubb)Recaptured by the Americans in 1814 and sold 1815 in Whitehall, New York
HMS Nancy6-gun schooner1789 in Detroit, MichiganServed in upper Great Lakes; fitted with six 4-pounder carriage guns and six swivel gunsSank in Nottawasaga River in 1814 after being chased by,, and
10-gun brig1813 in Kingston, OntarioCaptured by Americans in 1813, renamed York
20-gun sloop1809 in Kingston, OntarioTook part in several engagements on Lake OntarioRenamed Niagara (1814) and later laid up and broken up in 1833
4-gun sloop1799 in York, Upper Canada (now Toronto)Built as government ferrySank 1811 off Hanlan's Point
112-gun ship of the line1814 in Kingston, OntarioOnly ship to be built and operated on Great LakesDecommissioned in 1815? and broken up
Schooner; 53 tons1812 from American builder on Lake OntarioCaptured as 1813; re-captured by Americans 1813 and re-captured by RN in 1814Renamed HMS Hamilton 1814; fate unknown
18-gun sloop; converted rocket vessel1807
Sloop1778 at Chatham Dockyard, Kent, EnglandFlounder in Road Town, British Virgin Islands
Arctic exploration shipPurchased in 1850 as PtarmiganRetired 1879 and broken up
Schooner1768Built at Halifax, Nova Scotia, the first Royal Navy ship built in CanadaLost 1775
SloopCaptured 1780Decommissioned in 1781
Sloop1806Built at the Halifax, Nova ScotiaDecommissioned and broken up in 1814
SloopPurchased as Resolution in 1777Captured by USS Ranger, 24 April 1778
Schooner1767 in Boston ShipyardPatrolled the American coast from 1768 through 1772Sold 1772
54-gun ship of the lineFormerly Antelope from 1803served in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War.Sold 1783
74-gun ship of the line1759 in Deptford, near London, EnglandServed later as prison shipSold 1814
74-gun ship of the lineBuilt in London 1765Served in Seven Years' War, American Revolutionary War, Battle of Cape St. Vincent in 1780, Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781 and Battle of St. Kitts in 1782Sank 1801

Shipyards

A list of shipyards of NAS:

Some ships were shipped over from yards in England:

Sources