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
edit| Ship name | Type | Launched | Ship details | Fate |
| HMS Sapphire | 32-gun ship of the line | 1675 Harwich, England | Cornered 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. | |
| HMS Leopard | 50-gun ship of the line | 1775 in Portsmouth, England | Destroyed in 1814 off Anticosti Island, Quebec | |
| HMS Speedy | Schooner | 1798 – Kingston, Ontario | Sunk in Lake Ontario off Brighton, Ontario in 1804 | |
| HMS Sir Isaac Brock | — | — | Unfinished vessel was being built in York, Upper Canada – now Toronto | Burned and destroyed during War of 1812 |
| HMS Detroit (1812) | 6-gun brig; 200 tons | 1812 – Detroit, Michigan | Captured by British forces and renamed Detroit | Burned in 1813 |
| HMS Detroit (1813) | 12- or 14-gun schooner, 305 tons | 1813 in Amherstburg, Ontario | Captured by Americans and renamed USS Detroit in 1813 | Sold in 1825 |
| HMS Confiance | 36-gun frigate | 1814 in Île aux Noix, Lake Champlain – near Plattsburgh, New York | Served on Lake Champlain | Captured by Americans and sold in 1825 |
| HMS Linnet | 16-gun brig | 1814 in Île aux Noix, Lake Champlain – near Plattsburgh, New York | Served on Lake Champlain; capture 1814 | |
| HMS Chub (I) | 4-gun schooner | 1807 in Bermuda | Sunk off Halifax, Nova Scotia 1812 | |
| HMS Finch / HMS Chubb (II) / HMS Shannon | 11-gun sloop captured from the Americans (ex-USS Growler); 110 tons | 1812? | 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 Nancy | 6-gun schooner | 1789 in Detroit, Michigan | Served in upper Great Lakes; fitted with six 4-pounder carriage guns and six swivel guns | Sank in Nottawasaga River in 1814 after being chased by Niagara, Tigress, and Scorpion |
| HMS Duke of Gloucester | 10-gun brig | 1813 in Kingston, Ontario | Captured by Americans in 1813, renamed York | |
| HMS Royal George | 20-gun sloop | 1809 in Kingston, Ontario | Took part in several engagements on Lake Ontario | Renamed Niagara (1814) and later laid up and broken up in 1833 |
| HMS Toronto | 4-gun sloop | 1799 in York, Upper Canada (now Toronto) | Built as government ferry | Sank 1811 off Hanlan's Point |
| HMS St. Lawrence | 112-gun ship of the line | 1814 in Kingston, Ontario | Only ship to be built and operated on Great Lakes | Decommissioned in 1815? and broken up |
| HMS Hamilton | Schooner; 53 tons | 1812 from American builder on Lake Ontario | Captured as USS Growler 1813; re-captured by Americans 1813 and re-captured by RN in 1814 | Renamed HMS Hamilton 1814; fate unknown |
| HMS Erebus | 18-gun sloop; converted rocket vessel | 1807 | ||
| HMS Nymph | Sloop | 1778 at Chatham Dockyard, Kent, England | Flounder in Road Town, British Virgin Islands | |
| HMS Resolute | Arctic exploration ship | Purchased in 1850 as Ptarmigan | Retired 1879 and broken up | |
| HMS Halifax (1768) | Schooner | 1768 | Built at Halifax, Nova Scotia, the first Royal Navy ship built in Canada | Lost 1775 |
| HMS Halifax (1780) | Sloop | 1777 as United States Navy USS Ranger | Captured 1780 | Decommissioned in 1781 |
| HMS Halifax (1806) | Sloop | 1806 | Built at the Halifax, Nova Scotia | Decommissioned and broken up in 1814 |
| HMS Drake | Sloop | Purchased as Resolution in 1777 | Captured by USS Ranger, 24 April 1778 | |
| HMS Sultana | Schooner | 1767 in Boston Shipyard | Patrolled the American coast from 1768 through 1772 | Sold 1772 |
| HMS Antelope | 54-gun ship of the line | Formerly Antelope from 1803 | served in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War. | Sold 1783 |
| HMS Fame | 74-gun ship of the line | 1759 in Deptford, near London, England | Served later as prison ship | Sold 1814 |
| HMS Invincible | 74-gun ship of the line | Built in London 1765 | Served 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 1782 | Sank 1801 |
Shipyards
editA list of shipyards of NAS:
- Halifax Naval Yard, Nova Scotia
- Oswego, New York
- Pointe au Baril, Ontario
- Navy Island, Ontario
- Niagara
- Detroit, Michigan
- Oswegatchie
- Carleton Island
- Raven Creek
- Kingston, Ontario
- Prince Edward County, Ontario
- York, Upper Canada
- Amherstburg, Ontario
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Black Rock
- Presqu'Ile, Pennsylvania
- Erie, Pennsylvania
- Quebec, Quebec
- Penetanguishene, Ontario
- Chippawa, Ontario
- Ganaoque, Ontario
- Cobourg, Ontario
- Grand Island, New York
- Montreal, Quebec
- Buffalo, New York
- Sorel, Quebec
- Levis, Quebec
- Stromness
- Sarnia, Ontario
Some ships were shipped over from yards in England:
- Newcastle
- Portsmouth