Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei irava - I whakapumautia te ingoa "Prince William" i te 3 o Paenga-whāwhā 1780 a i whakauruhia ia ki Portsmouth i waenga i te Paenga-whāwhā me te Akuhata 1780. I whakahaua ia i raro i tana rangatira tuatahi, a Kapene Stair Douglas, i te Paenga-whawha o taua tau, ka uru atu ki te Channel Fleet i raro i a Sir George Darby. I rere ia mo nga West Indies i te marama o Noema 1780 me te kaipuke i raro i a Sir Samuel Hood, a ka kite ia i te mahi me te kaipuke i te hopu o Sint Eustatius i te Hui-tanguru 1781, me te Pakanga o Fort Royal
i te 29/30 o Aperira 1781. Na ka wehe atu a "Prince William" i nga West Indies i te mutunga o te tau, ka rere ki Amerika ki te Raki ka tae ki reira i te Oketopa. Kaore i roa ka hoki mai ia ki West Indies me Hood, a ka riro te whakahau mai i a Douglas ki a Kapene George Wilkinson. I whawhai ia me te ope a Hood i te Pakanga o Saint Kitts i te 25/26 o Hanuere 1782, i whara ai nga tangata tokotoru.