HMS Moira

HMS Moira

HMS "Moira" (or HMS "Earl of Moira") was a British 14-gun schooner of the Royal Navy, that plied the waters of Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River during the War of 1812.

She was launched on 28 May 1805 at Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard, Ontario to a design by Alexander Munn, and was named for the 1st Marquis of Hastings and 2nd Earl of Moira (1754-1826). She was rebuilt in 1813, being re-rigged as a brig, and carrying 16 guns. She was renamed "Charwell" on 22 January 1814, and after the end of the war saw use as a powder hulk from 1816 and an accommodation vessel from 1827. She was sold in 1837

References

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* [http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/prints/viewPrint.cfm?ID=PAH2677 PAH2677 View of the embarkation of the Earl of Moira, on board the Sterling Castle off Cooper's Island, Port Louis.... Augt 20th 1813]
* [http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/Warof1812/2006/Issue3/c_oswego.html The War of 1812 Magazine]


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