List of Royal Navy ships in North America is an annotated list of Royal Navy ships serving in Canada, the Thirteen Colonies and Caribbean under the North American Station. For ships under the Pacific Station, see List of Royal Navy ships in the Pacific Northwest.
| Ship Name | Type | Year Launched; | Ship Details; | Fate; |
| HMS Leopard | 50-gun Ship of the Line | 1775 in Portsmouth, England | Destroyed in 1814 off Anticosti Island, Quebec | |
| HMS Speedy | Schooner | 1798 - Kingston, Ontario | Sunk in Lake Ontario off Brighton, Ontario in 1804 | |
| HMS Sir Isaac Brock | N/A - likely a brig | 1813? | Unfinished vessel was being built in York, Upper Canada - now Toronto | Burned and destroyed by invading Americans during War of 1812 |
| HMS Detroit 1 | 6-gun Brig; 200 tons | 1812 - Detroit Michigan | Captured by British and renamed Detroit | Burned in 1813 |
| HMS Detroit 2 | 12 or 14 gun Schooner, 305 tons | 1813 in Amherstburg, Ontario | Captured by Americans and renamed USS Detroit in 1813 | Sold in 1825 |
| HMS Confiance | 36-gun Frigate | 1814 in Ile aux Noix, Lake Champlain - near Plattsburgh, New York | Served on Lake Champlain | Captured by Americans and sold in 1825 |
| HMS Linnet | 16-gun Brig | 1812? ex-USS Growler | Served on Lake Champlain; capture 1814 | |
| HMS Chub 1 | 4-gun Schooner | 1807 in Bermuda | Sunk off Halifax 1812 | |
| HMS Finch / HMS Chubb 2 / HMS Shannon | 11-gun Sloop captured from the Americans (ex-USS Growler); 110 tons | 1812? | Served on Lake Champlain; captured 1813 and renamed Shannon (and later as Chubb) | Recaptured by the Americans in 1814 and sold 1815 in Whitehall, New York |
| HMS Nancy | 12-gun Schooner | 1789 in Detroit, Michigan | Served in upper Great Lakes; fitted with six four- pound carriage guns and six swivel guns | Sank in Nottawasaga River in 1814 after being chased by USS Niagara, Tigress, and Scorpion |
| HMS Duke of Gloucester | 10-gun Brig | 1813 in Kingston, Ontario | Captured by Americans in 1813 | |
| HMS Royal George | 20-gun Sloop | 1809 in Kingston, Ontario | defended Fort Oswego and participated in the Battle of Sackett's Harbour | renamed Burlington and later laid up and broken up in 1833 |
| HMS Toronto | 4-gun Sloop | 1799 in York (Toronto) | Built as government ferry | Sank 1811 off Hanlan's Point |
| HMS St. Lawrence | 112-gun Ship of the line | 1814 in Kingston, Ontario | Only ship to be built and operated in Great Lakes | Decommissioned in 1815? and broken up |
| HMS Hamilton | Schooner; 53 tons | 1812 from American builder on Lake Ontario | Captured as USS Growler 1813; re-captured by Americans 1813 and re-captured by RN in 1814 | Renamed HMS Hamilton 1814; fate unknown |
| HMS Erebus | 18-gun Sloop; converted rocket vessel | 1807 | ||
| HMS Nymph | Sloop | 1778 at Chatham Dockyard, Kent, England | flounder in Road Town, BVI | |
| HMS Resolute | Arctic exploration ship | purchased in 1850 as Ptarmigan | retired 1879 and broken up | |
| HMS Halifax | Schooner | 1768 | Built at Halifax, Nova Scotia, the first Royal Navy ship built in Canada | lost 1775 |
| HMS Halifax | Sloop of war | 1777 as United States Navy USS Ranger | captured 1780 | decommissioned in 1781 |
| HMS Halifax | Sloop of war | 1806 | Built at the Halifax Naval Yard Nova Scotia | Decommissioned and broken up in 1814 |
| HMS Drake | Sloop of war | purchased as Resolution in 1777 | ||
| HMS Sultana | Schooner | 1767 in Boston Shipyard | patrolled the American coast from 1768 through 1772 | Sold 1772 |
| HMS Antelope | 54-gun Sloop of war | formerly Antelope from 1803 | served in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War. | Sold 1783 |
| HMS Fame | 74-gun Ship of the line | 1759 in Deptford, near London, England | Served later as prison ship | Sold 1814 |
| HMS Invincible | 74-Gun Ship of the line | Built in London 1765 | Served in Seven Years' War, American War of Independence, Battle of Cape St. Vincent in 1780, Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781 and Battle of St. Kitts in 1782 | Sank 1801 |
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