HMS Canada
Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Canada, after the former British colony and modern Dominion of Canada:
- HMS Canada (1765) was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1765. She became a prison ship in 1810, and was sold broken up in 1834.
- HMS Canada was to have been a 112-gun first rate. She was laid down in 1814, but cancelled in 1832 and broken up on the stocks.
- HMS Canada (1881) was a screw corvette launched in 1881 and sold in 1897.
- HMS Canada (1913) was a battleship, originally ordered by the Chilean Navy as the Almirante Latorre. She was launched in 1913, but purchased by the British government in 1914 after the outbreak of the First World War. She was resold to Chile in 1920, as Almirante Latorre, and served with them until being broken up in Japan from 1959 on.
See also
- HMCS Canada
- Canada (ship)
- RMS Canada, an America class steamship
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