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Several vessels have served the [[Royal Navy]] under the name '''''Charlotte'''''.

* [[HMY Charlotte|HMY ''Charlotte'']], a 143-ton ([[Builder's Old Measurement|bm]]) [[yacht]] of 8 guns, built in 1677 at [[Woolwich Dockyard]]. She was rebuilt in 1761 and renamed ''Augusta'', then broken up in 1771.<ref>Colledge (1969), p.116 </ref>
* HMS ''Charlotte'' (1763), a [[Cutter (ship)|cutter]] of 4 guns purchased in February 1763. She was sold on 14 November 1770.<ref>Colledge (1969), p.117 </ref>
* HMS ''Charlotte'' (1797) was a [[brig]] of eight guns purchased in the [[Leeward Islands]] that wrecked on [[Hispaniola]] on 21 December 1797, within four months of her purchase. Because she wrecked so quickly, she was never entered into [[British Admiralty|Admiralty]] records. All her crew made it to shore on her fallen [[Mast (sailing)|masts]]. There the Spaniards took them prisoner and marched them to [[Santiago, Dominican Republic|Santiago]]. Her commander was Lieutenant John Thicknesse.<ref>Hepper (1994), p. 85.</ref>
* {{HMS|Charlotte|1798}} was an eight-gun [[schooner]] purchased in the Leeward Islands in 1797 that a French [[privateer]] captured in October 1798 while she was under the command of Lieutenant Thicknesse.<ref>Hepper (1994), p.88.</ref>
* HMS ''Charlotte'' (1800) was a schooner purchased in 1800. She was armed with six 3-pounder guns and wrecked on 28 March 1801 on the [[Île à Vache]] while under the command of Lieutenant John Williams, Thicknesse's predecessor on the previous ''Charlotte''.<ref>Hepper (1994), p.98.</ref>
* RMAS ''Charlotte'' (1966, A210) was a Girl-class dockyard [[Tugboat|tug]], built by Isaac Pimblott at Northwich. She was sold in 1989.<ref>Colledge (1970), p.75 </ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Charlotte |url=http://shippingandshipbuilding.uk/view.php?ref=225107 |website=Shipping And Shipbuilding |publisher=Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust |access-date=28 December 2023}}</ref>

The Royal Navy employed several [[Hired armed vessels|hired armed]] cutters named {{ship|Hired armed cutter|Charlotte||2}}.

==See also==
* {{HMS|Queen Charlotte}}, several ships
* {{ship|Hired armed schooner|Lady Charlotte}}

==Citations==
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==References==
* {{cite book |last1=Colledge |first1=J. J. |title=Ships of the Royal Navy: An Historical Index - Vol.1 |date=1969 |publisher=David & Charles |location=Newton Abbot }}
* {{cite book |last1=Colledge |first1=J. J. |title=Ships of the Royal Navy: An Historical Index - Vol.2 |date=1970 |publisher=David & Charles |location=Newton Abbot }}
* Hepper, David J. (1994) ''British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650-1859''. (Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot). {{ISBN|0-948864-30-3}}

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