H.M.S. Canada, was a 3rd rate, of 74 guns, 1,605 tons (b.m.), 170 ft. long, 47 ft. beam, built at Woolwich Dockyard, 1765. She was converted into a prison ship in March 1810, and was broken up at Chatham in 1834. At the Battle of the Saints she was commanded by rapt. W. Cornwallis Her casualties were two killed and 23 wounded. She accepted the surrender of the French Hector, seen sinking afterwards on the 50c stamp.
SG116 but see BATTLE OF THE SAINTS