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HMS ''Canada'' was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 September 1765 at Woolwich Dockyard.〔 On 2 May 1781, ''Canada'' engaged and captured the Spanish ship ''Santa Leocadia'', of 34 guns.〔Ships of the Old Navy, ''Canada''.〕 In 1782, ''Canada'' was under the command of William Cornwallis,〔 when she took part in the Battle of St. Kitts. Later that year she participated in the Battle of the Saintes. She took part in the Action of 6 November 1794 under Charles Powell Hamilton and managed to avoid capture. ==Napoleonic Wars== In 1807, ''Canada'' was in the Caribbean in a squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Alexander Cochrane. The squadron, which included ''HMS Prince George'', ''HMS Northumberland'', ''HMS Ramillies'' and ''HMS Cerberus'', captured ''Telemaco'', ''Carvalho'' and ''Master'' on 17 April 1807. Following the concern in Britain that neutral Denmark was entering an alliance with Napoleon, in December 1807 ''Canada'' sailed in Cochrane's squadron in the expedition to occupy the Danish West Indies. The expedition captured the Danish islands of St Thomas on 22 December and Santa Cruz on 25 December. The Danes did not resist and the invasion was bloodless. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Canada (1765)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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