HMS Prince William

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

  • 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.

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