HMS Prince William

Last updated December 28, 2021

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Prince William:

HMS Prince William (1665) was a 4-gun flyboat captured in 1665 and captured again by the Dutch in 1666.
HMS Prince William (1780) was a 64-gun third rate previously the Spanish ship Guispuscoano. She was captured in 1780, converted to a sheer hulk in 1791 and was broken up in 1816.

A third vessel served the Royal Navy as HM hired armed ship Prince William.

This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.

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