Amherstburg Royal Naval Dockyard

Amherstburg Royal Naval Dockyard
Amherstburg, Ontario
Site of the Dockyard at Navy Yard Park, Amherstburg
Type	Shipyard, dockyard
Site information
Controlled by	Provincial Marine/Royal Navy
Website	Amherstburg Navy Yard National Historic Site of Canada
Site history
Built	1796
In use	1796–1813
Battles/wars	War of 1812
Garrison information
Garrison	Provincial Marine/Royal Navy
National Historic Site of Canada
Designated	1928

Amherstburg Royal Naval Dockyard was a Provincial Marine and then a Royal Navy yard from 1796 to 1813 in Amherstburg, Ontario, situated on the Detroit River. The yard comprised blockhouses, storehouses, magazine, wood yard and wharf. The yard was established in 1796 to support the Upper Canada Provincial Marine after Great Britain ceded a pre-existing shipyard on the Detroit River to the United States. Amherstburg Royal Naval Dockyard constructed four warships for the Lake Erie detachment of the Provincial Marine before and during the War of 1812. In 1813 the dockyard was abandoned and destroyed when the British retreated and never reopened. In 1928, the site was designated a National Historic Site of Canada.