GPS: N 44° 31' 12" W 80° 01' 15"
Civic Address: 147 Mosley St., Wasaga Beach, Ontario L9Z 2K1
Website: www.wasagabeachpark.com
Directions: In Wasaga Beach, on Mosely Street across from 3rd Street.

Description: The HMS Nancy was launched on November 24, 1789 for the fur trade. It was named after John Richardson's daughter, who was one of the owners of Richardson Forsythe and Company that built the ship.

She was 24 m length and 6.7 m beam. During the war her armament was two 24-pounder carronades and two 6-pounder guns.

On September 9, 1813, while the Nancy was in Lake Huron, the Americans won the decisive Battle of Lake Erie, capturing all the British armed vessels on the lake leaving Nancy the only British ship remaining on the Upper Lakes which continued to run supply trips from the Nottawasaga to Mackinac Island.

After the American's failed attempt to retake Fort Mackinac in July of 1813, three ships, the Niagara, Scorpion and Tigress sailed for Nottawasaga Bay and on August 15 engaged the Nancy which had been towed two miles up the River to evade capture.

Lieutenant Miller Worsley of the Royal Navy, 22 sailors, 23 Ojibwa and 9 French-Canadian voyageurs were faced with overwhelming odds and Worsley determined to scuttle the Nancy to prevent capture blew it, and the blockhouse up.

A museum, theatre and lighthouse mark the site of her courageous battle.