HMS Canso (1813)

HMS Canso was the American letter of marque schooner Lottery, launched in 1811, that a British squadron captured in 1813.

[2] She sailed under a letter of marque dated 24 July 1812, was armed with six 9-pounder carronades, and had a crew of 30 men under the command of her captain John Southcomb.

[3] On her way to Pernambuco she captured one prize, the brig Preston, which however contained so little of value that Southcomb gave her up after having plundered her of sails, cables, and stores.

On her way back to Baltimore, Lottery captured the schooner Dolphin, under the command of Samuel Green, which had been sailing from New Brunswick to Jamaica.

[3] On 8 February 1813, nine boats and 200 men of a British naval squadron comprising Belvidera, Statira, Maidstone, and Junon captured Lottery in Lynnhaven Bay on the Chesapeake.

[9] Traveller, Bishop, master, had been sailing from North Bergen to Gibraltar when the American privateer Surprise had captured her.

There, between 17 and 19 July vessels of the squadron captured the schooners Buzi and Margaret, with cargoes of flour, tobacco, tar, and clothing.

[15] Prize money for the Countess of Harcourt, the bark Maria Theresa, goods from the ship Carl Gustaff, and the schooner Cooler, was paid in April 1824.

[g] Off Amelia Island on 10 and 12 February the squadron captured the ships Maria Francisca and Governor Kindeland.

[17] The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered Canso for sale on 18 April 1816 at Deptford.