Half the unit, some 210 officers and other ranks, together with 48 wives and children, were on board "Archduke Charles" when she wrecked on 29 May 1816 near Green Island in the Saint Lawrence River. The Regiment had marched from Kingston to Quebec and had embarked there for Nova Scotia. Four soldiers, two wives, and two children lost their lives; all others were saved. Contemporary accounts referred to the regiment as the Royal Nova Scotia Regiment, which had, however, been disbanded some years earlier.