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HMS Pictou

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Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Pictou, named for Pictou, Nova Scotia:

  • HMS Pictou was a 14-gun privateer or letter of marque that the Royal Navy captured in 1813. The USS Constitution captured and burnt her off Barbados in February 1814.
  • HMS Pictou was a 14-gun schooner, previously the American privateer Zebra, which HMS Pyramus captured on 20 April 1813. The Royal Navy purchased her in 1814 and sold her in 1818.

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