HMS Surprise is a modern tall ship built at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada.

[3][4] Rose was built at the Smith and Rhuland shipyard in Lunenburg, a yard which had established a reputation for large and successful replicas such as HMS Bounty in 1960 and Bluenose II in 1963.

[7] The ship was sold to the 20th Century Fox film studio in March 2001,[8] and underwent extensive modifications to be used in the making of the film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, in which she portrayed the Royal Navy frigate HMS Surprise with a story based on several of the books by Patrick O'Brian.

[9] After the film was complete, the ship was leased and then purchased by the Maritime Museum of San Diego which began restoring her to sailing condition in September 2007.

She sails several times a year,[citation needed] often with the museum's other tall ships, the schooner Californian and the 1863 barque Star of India.

[11] In 2010, she portrayed HMS Providence in the Disney adventure film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.