Kammala wannan jumla: An tabbatar da sunan "Prince William" a ranar 3 ga Afrilu 1780 kuma an sanya shi da jan ƙarfe a Portsmouth tsakanin Afrilu da Agusta 1780. An umurce shi a karkashin kwamandansa na farko, Kyaftin Stair Douglas, a watan Afrilu na wannan shekarar, kuma ya shiga Channel Fleet karkashin Sir George Darby. Ta yi tafiya zuwa West Indies a watan Nuwamba na 1780 tare da rundunar jiragen ruwa a karkashin Sir Samuel Hood, kuma ta ga aikin tare da rundunar jiragen ruwa a kama Sint Eustatius a watan Fabrairun 1781, kuma a
Yaƙin Fort Royal a ranar 29/30 ga Afrilu 1781. "Prince William" sannan ya bar West Indies a ƙarshen shekara, yana tafiya zuwa Arewacin Amurka kuma ya isa can a watan Oktoba. Ba da daɗewa ba ta koma West Indies tare da Hood, kuma umurnin ya wuce daga Douglas zuwa Kyaftin George Wilkinson. Ta yi yaƙi tare da rundunar Hood a yakin Saint Kitts a ranar 25/26 ga Janairu 1782, inda ta sami mutane uku da suka ji rauni.