HMS Princess Charlotte (1814)
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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Builder: | Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard, Ontario, Canada |
| Launched: | 15 April 1814 |
| Renamed: | HMS Burlington, 9 December 1814 |
| Fate: | Broken up, January 1833 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 815 tons (builder's measurement) |
| Length: | 198.5 ft (60.5 m) |
| Beam: | 37.5 ft (11.4 m) |
| Armament: | Two 68 pounder carronade, Fourteen 32 pounder carronade, Twenty six 24 pounder cannon |
For other ships of this name, see HMS Princess Charlotte.
HMS Princess Charlotte, later HMS Burlington, was a fifth rate 42-gun Royal Navy frigate built in 1814, during the War of 1812 at the Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard in Kingston, Ontario.
The ship took part in British attacks on Fort Oswego and Sackett's Harbour on Lake Ontario in 1814.
It was renamed Burlington in December 1814 and subsequently laid up and broken up in 1833.
[edit] References
- Plan of HM Frigate Princess Charlotte, 1813
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
(Note that the following sources should be incorporated into this article)
- Robert Malcomson (2001). Warships of the Great Lakes: 1754-1834. ISBN 1557509107.
- Robert Malcomson (1998). Lords of the Lake. ISBN 1557505322.
- Jonathan Moore (2006). Archaeological and Historical Investigations of Three War of 1812 Wrecks at Kingston, Ontario : HMS St. Lawrence, HMS Kingston and HMS Burlington : Report for Province of Ontario Licence to Conduct Archaeological Exploration or Fieldwork 1999-096 at Sites BbGd-6, BbGc-45 and BbGc-46. ISBN 0-9781712-0-9.
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