HMS Pictou

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Pictou:

• HMS Pictou was a 16-gun schooner, previously the American privateer Syren. She was captured in 1813, but recaptured and burnt in February 1814 by the USS Constitution.
• HMS Pictou was a 14-gun schooner, previously the American privateer Zebra which was captured by HMS Pyramus on 12 April 1813; she was purchased for the Royal Navy in 1814 and commissioned in June 1815 as the Pictou, being finally sold in 1818.

See also

• HMCS Pictou