HMS Prince was a Royal Navy storeship purchased in 1854 from mercantile owners and lost in a storm off Balaklava in November that year during the Crimean War.

She was purchased from the General Screw Steam Shipping Company for £105,000 by Admiralty Order dated July 1854 and commissioned under Commander Benjamin Baynton.

She sailed for the Crimea, carrying 150 persons and a cargo of much needed winter uniforms.

The loss of the ship and its cargo caused a public outcry in Britain because of the severe winter conditions being endured by troops in unsuitable clothing.

Correspondent William Howard Russell considered her officers to have been negligent in losing her bower anchors.