HMS Canada was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 September 1765 at Woolwich Dockyard.

[1] On 2 May 1781, Canada engaged and captured the Spanish ship Santa Leocadia, of 34 guns.

[2] In 1782, Canada was under the command of William Cornwallis,[2] when she took part in the Battle of St. Kitts.

She took part in the action of 6 November 1794 under Charles Powell Hamilton and managed to avoid capture.

[3] 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.