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Prince of Wales (1786 ship)
''Prince of Wales'' was a transport ship in the First Fleet, assigned to carry convicts for the European colonisation of Australia in 1788. Built in 1786, she set sail for Australia the following year, reaching Botany Bay in January 1788. On a difficult return voyage in 1788–89 she became separated from her convoy, was taken eastward around the world instead of west and drifted helplessly off Rio de Janeiro for a day while her crew was incapacitated with scurvy.
After her return to Britain her owners deployed her as a whaler in the South Seas Fisheries. They then sold her and she became a privateer and letter of marque, before performing a voyage as a slave ship. During this voyage a French privateer captured ''Prince of Wales''; in a process that is currently unclear, she returned to British, albeit new, hands. Her new owners then employed her trading between London and the West Indies, the Mediterranean, and the West Indies again. She was last listed in 1810.
== Construction ==
''Prince of Wales'' was a square-sterned barque of 300 to 350 tons (bm), long and wide and with a height between decks of amidships and fore and aft.〔Gillen 1989, p.429.〕〔 She was built on the River Thames in 1786, by the firm Christopher Watson and Co. of Rotherhithe, which had also built .〔Henderson and Stanbury 1998, p. 40.〕 She was designed to be sailed by a ship's master and crew of around 25.〔 Her owner was Cornhill merchant John Mather,〔Bateson 1959, p.80.〕 who had previously purchased and disposed of Captain Cook's ''Endeavour'' after that vessel had returned from Botany Bay.〔Allan 2002, p. 1929.〕
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