Kings County was a four-masted barque built in 1890 at Kingsport, Nova Scotia on the Minas Basin.

Kings County was one of the largest wooden sailing vessels ever built in Canada and one of only two Canadian four-masted barques.

At first registered as a four-masted full-rigged ship, she was quickly changed to a barque after her June 2 launch.

Like many of the large wooden merchant ships built in Atlantic Canada, she spent most of her career far from home on trading voyages around the world.

In 1911 she became the largest wooden ship to enter Havana Harbour when she delivered a cargo of lumber and was briefly stranded.