HMS Canada (1765)

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For other ships of the same name, see HMS Canada.

HMS Canada was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 September 1765 at Woolwich Dockyard.[1]

On 2 May 1781, Canada engaged and captured the Spanish ship Santa Leocadia, of 34 guns.[2]

In 1782, Canada was under the command of William Cornwallis,[2] when she took part in the Battle of St. Kitts. Later that year she participated in the Battle of the Saintes.

She took part in the Action of 6 November 1794 and managed to avoid capture.

Canada became a prison ship from 1810, and was broken up in 1834.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p176.
  2. ^ a b Ships of the Old Navy, Canada.

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