HMS Princess Charlotte (1814)

History
UK
Name:	HMS Princess Charlotte
Ordered:	1813
Builder:	Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard, Ontario, Canada
Launched:	15 April 1814
Renamed:	Built as HMS Vittoria Renamed HMS Burlington on 9 December 1814
Fate:	Put up for sale in January 1833 Later scuttled
General characteristics
Class and type:	42-gun fifth rate frigate
Tons burthen:	755 90/94 bm
Length:	121 ft (37 m) (overall) 100 ft 0.25 in (30.4864 m) (keel)
Beam:	37 ft 8 in (11.48 m)
Depth of hold:	8 ft 8.5 in (2.654 m)
Complement:	280
Armament:	Upper deck: 24 x 24pdrs Quarterdeck/Forecastle: 16 x 32 pounder carronades + 2 x 68pdr carronades

HMS Princess Charlotte, later HMS Burlington, was a 42-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy built in 1814, during the War of 1812 at the Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard in Kingston, Ontario. ^[1] She had originally been built as Vittoria, but was renamed before being launched. She was built to a design by George Record, and was constructed under a private contract by Master shipwright John Goudie. She served on Lake Ontario, having been commissioned at Oswego on 5 May 1814 under Captain William Mulcaster.

The ship took part in British attacks on Fort Oswego and Sackett's Harbour on Lake Ontario in 1814. In November that year she came under the command of Captain Edward Collier, and was renamed HMS Burlington on 9 December 1814. Captain Nicholas Lockyer took command in June 1816. Burlington was offered for sale in January 1833, but there were no buyers and she was later towed away and scuttled.

References

• Plan of HM Frigate Princess Charlotte, 1813
• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475. 

Further reading

• Robert Malcomson (2001). Warships of the Great Lakes: 1754-1834. Annapolis. ISBN 1-55750-910-7. 
• Robert Malcomson (1998). Lords of the Lake. Annapolis. ISBN 1-55750-532-2. 
• 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. Ottawa. ISBN 0-9781712-0-9. 
• George F.G. Stanley, Richard A. Preston (195-?). `A short history of Kingston as a military and naval centre`. Kingston, Ont.  Check date values in: |date= (help)