HMS Moira (1805)

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 Engagements on Lake Ontario. She was sold in 1837.

Career
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.

War of 1812
She was renamed Charwell on 22 January 1814.

In May 1814, Charwell was part of Commodore Sir James Lucas Yeo's squadron in the attack on the American fort at Oswego.

She was then with the squadron while it blockaded Sackets Harbor, New York.

On 12 August Charwell (A.F. Spence), Magnet (Edward Collier), Netley (Lieutenant Charles Radcliffe), and Star (Alexander Dobbs), captured two American schooners, the Somers and the Ohio.

After the end of the war Charwell became a powder hulk from 1816 and an accommodation vessel in 1827.

Fate
Charwell was sold in 1837.