A number of sailing ships have been named ''Queen Charlotte''.

Naval vessels

* - four vessels of the British

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have been named ''Queen Charlotte'' * served the Royal Navy during the

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and was involved in an heroic

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against a larger French vessel. * is the

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Division in

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, Canada.

British merchant ships

* was built in Ireland but did not appear in British online records until 1786. She made two voyages as a

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and was sold in Barbados in 1793 after delivering her slaves from her second voyage. * was built in France and taken in prize c.1781, probably on the

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. She first appeared in British on-line records first as a privateer and then a transport. She was last listed in 1783. * was a British merchant ship launched in 1785 at Stockton for Etches & Co. Between September 1785 and 1788 she made a

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of the world in company with another ship that the company owned, the ''King George''. The two vessels were engaged in the

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in the Pacific northwest. They sold their furs in China and returned to England with cargoes that they were carrying back for the British

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(EIC). In 1789 she was renamed ''Montreal''. She was at Bordeaux at the outbreak of war with France in 1793 and the French government seized her. * was built in France and first appeared in ''

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'' (''LR'') in 1786, the 1785 issue, if any, not being available on line. She was employed as a Northern Fisheries

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, sailing to Greenland and

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. From late 1793 she made at least one voyage as a

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. Although she was last listed in 1796, there is no evidence that she sailed again after late 1794. * was built in Philadelphia in 1780 almost certainly under another name. She appeared in British-origin online sources between 1789 and 1792, during which time she made two voyages as a

to the Southern Whale Fishery. She was last listed in 1796 with stale data. * was built on the Thames in 1790. She made eight voyages for the

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(HBC) before it sold her in 1800. She then traded to South America and the Mediterranean. In 1803 her crew mutinied and turned her over to the French, who promptly handed her and them back to the British authorities, despite the two countries being at war. She then spent much of her career sailing between London and the

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(CGH; the Cape). She was sailing for the Cape in October 1813 when a collision with another vessel resulted in ''Queen Charlotte'' being wrecked shortly thereafter. She was probably salvaged to become * was a French prize that first appeared in British on-line records in 1799. She was a

that burnt in 1805. * was launched at

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and lost in the Bay of Bengal in 1804 or so. * was a smack launched in 1802 in

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for the Old Ship Company of Berwick. She repelled in 1804 the attack of a French privateer in a

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. A collier ran her down and sank her on 26 October 1826. * – ship of the

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that later became HMS ''Queen Charlotte''. In time she became USS ''Queen Charlotte'', before returning to mercantile trade and being abandoned in 1844. * - launched in Australia and made two voyages on each of which she returned one convict from

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or Mauritius. * first appeared in online British sources in 1815 and was probably the salvaged , which had been sunk in 1813. From 1819 she traded with Brazil and Argentina and was burnt at Buenos Aires on 25 July 1822. * ''Queen Charlotte'' was a vessel lost with all hands in a gale at Madras on 24 October 1818.

Falmouth packet ships

* ''Queen Charlotte'' made one voyage to

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. A French vessel captured her on 1 September 1781 off

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. * ''Queen Charlotte'' made several voyages across the Atlantic between 1788 and 1793. On her last voyage the French sloop ''Cerf'' chased her into New York. * was built in Emsworth in 1801. She was a regular

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ship for the

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, sailing out of Falmouth. She made several voyages across the Atlantic between late 1802 and 16 May 1805 when she was captured. She came back into British hands around 1806. The Post Office took her into temporary service between 1812 and 1817. She then became a

off Peru in 1818. She remained in the Pacific Coast of South America until she was condemned there in 1820 as unseaworthy; she was last listed that same year. She may have been repaired and have continued to trade on the coast until 1822. * was a Falmouth packet boat, launched at Falmouth. She was wrecked at Lisbon in 1814. {{shipindex Ship names