HMS Princess Charlotte (1814)

	Drawing showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Princess Charlotte, 1815
History
United Kingdom
Name	Princess Charlotte
Ordered	1813
Builder	Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard, Kingston
Launched	14 April 1814
Commissioned	5 May 1814
Renamed	Built as Vittoria; Renamed Burlington on 9 December 1814;
Fate	Put up for sale in January 1833; Later scuttled;
General characteristics
Type	42-gun fifth-rate frigate
Tons burthen	755 90⁄94 bm
Length	121 ft 0 in (36.9 m) (overall); 100 ft 0+3⁄8 in (30.5 m) (keel);
Beam	37 ft 8 in (11.5 m)
Draught	14 ft 4 in (4.4 m)
Depth of hold	8 ft 8+1⁄2 in (2.7 m)
Complement	280
Armament	Upper deck: 24 × 24 pdr (11 kg) long guns; Quarterdeck/forecastle: 16 × 32 pdr (15 kg) carronades + 2 × 68 pdr (31 kg) carronades;

HMS Princess Charlotte, later HMS Burlington, was a 42-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy built in 1814, during the War of 1812 at the Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard in Kingston, Ontario. She had originally been built as Vittoria, but was renamed before being launched. She was constructed to a design by George Record, and was built under a private contract by Master shipwright John Goudie. She served on Lake Ontario, having been commissioned at Oswego on 5 May 1814 under Captain William Mulcaster.

The ship took part in the British attack on Fort Oswego and blockade of Sackett's Harbor on Lake Ontario 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.

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