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Governor Simcoe (1793 ship)
''Governor Simcoe'' was a merchant schooner launched in 1793 that the Provincial Marine acquired in 1813 and named after the British naval officer Sir Sidney Smith. She saw service on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812. The Royal Navy acquired her in 1814 and renamed her HMS ''Magnet'', a few months before her captain had to blow her up to prevent the Americans from capturing her.
==''Governor Simcoe''==
''Governor Simcoe'' served the North West Company (NWC) fur trade on Lake Ontario from her launch at Kingston, Ontario, Upper Canada, in 1793.〔Malcomson (2001a), p.327.〕 She was built for a group of merchants with ties to the North West Company, principally Richard Cartwright. As was common for most NWC ships at the start of the war, she was then likely hired out as a supply ship for the Provincial Marine and remained unarmed until a survey and refit in March 1813.〔Malcomson (2001b), p.42.〕〔Malcomson (2001b), p.70.〕
For some years prior to the outbreak of war, and for at least the first five months of the war, her captain was James Richardson (1759–1832), an ex-Provincial Marine Officer. "On the eve of the Battle of Queenston Heights on 13 October 1812 he delivered a shipment of gunpowder to Niagara and afterwards returned to York with prisoners and the news of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock’s death."〔Biography – RICHARDSON, JAMES (d. 1832) – Volume VI (1821-1835) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography.() - accessed 31 July 2014.〕
On her last merchant voyage, on 11 November 1812 Commodore Isaac Chauncey's United States Navy (USN) Lake Ontario squadron then patrolling off Kingston spotted ''Governor Simcoe'' and chased her. ''Governor Simcoe'' "evaded capture but ran too closely over a shoal and sank at its berth in Kingston from the damage it had incurred."〔Malcomson (2001b), p. 68.〕
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