Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Queen Charlotte after Charlotte, queen consort of King George III of the United Kingdom.

HMCS Queen Charlotte

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HMCS Queen Charlotte is the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve Division in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. First commissioned as a tender to HMCS Stadacona in 1941 it was later decommissioned and recommissioned as an independent shore establishment in 1942. She was later paid off in 1964 but then recommissioned in 1994.[1]

Sierra Leone colonial vessel of war Queen Charlotte

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Following her seizure of the French ship Le Louis, a ship engaged in the slave trade, the Vice Admiralty Court declared the French ship and its cargo forfeit. However, when this was taken to appeal at the High Court of Admiralty, the judge William Scott overturned the judgement, saying that the way Le Louis had been stopped and boarded was illegal as "No nation can exercise a right of visitation and search on the common and unappropriated parts of the sea, save only on the belligerent claim." He accepted that this would constitute a serious impediment to the suppression of the slave trade, but argued that this should be remedied through international treaties rather than Naval officers exceeding what they were permitted to do.[2]: 3–4 

See also

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Citations

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  1. ^ "National Defence Directorate of History and Heritage". 9 March 2005. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
  2. ^ Report of the Directors of the African Institution Read at the Annual General Meeting: On the . London: African Institution. 1818.

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