Some of what we know of the ship called "Royal George" from the war of 1812 on Lake Ontario, Canada.

Royal George. Ship (corvette), built at Point Frederick, Kingston, for Provincial Marine. Launched July, 1809 ; made maiden trip June, 1810. Re-named Niagara by Admiralty order January 22, 1814. Armament 22 guns. Length on deck, 96 feet 9 inches; breadth, extreme 27 feet 7 inches, moulded 27 feet 1 inch; depth in hold, 5 feet. Burthen in tons, 830 A model of thid ship, reputedly contemporary, is in the Fort Henry museum, Kingston (photograph, Canadian Geographical Journal, April, 1950). She appears clearly in Lieut. J. Hewitt’s two drawings of the attack on Oswego, May 6, I814. She was also in action at Sackett’s Harbor on July 19, 1812 and May 29, 1813, at Kingston on November 10, 1812, when the American squadron made on unsuccessful attack on her; and in Sir James Yeo’s engagements with Commodore Chauncey, August 10 and Sept. 11 and 28, 1813. This vessel was the largest warship on the Great Lakes at the outbreak of the War of 1812 (having been built as an answer to the United States brig Oneida of 1808) and saw more action than any other British ship on Lake Ontario. After the war she seems to have been used as a transport. In 1837 she was sold "in frame on slip" for 7.10.0. Although a glance at the Navy List would seem to indicate that she continued to exist until 1848, the vessel then carrying the name Nagara was apparently in fact the former Netley

John F. Burns, holds a cutlass that has been passed down in his family for the past 150 years. Mr Burns says the weapon was owned by a marine who served aboard the Royal Navy ship "Royal George" which participated in the defence of Kingston during the war of 1812-14. The name Wm. Kingdon, Plymouth is engraved on the handle.