HMS Princess Charlotte, later HMS Burlington, was a 42-gun fifth rate frigate

Frigate

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 of the Royal Navy

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 built in 1814, during the War of 1812

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 at the Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard

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 in Kingston, Ontario

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. 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

Lake Ontario

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, having been commissioned at Oswego

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 on 5 May 1814 under Captain William Mulcaster.

The ship took part in British attacks on Fort Oswego

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 and Sackett's Harbour on Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario

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 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.