HMS Princess (1795)

HMS Princess was the Dutch East Indiaman Williamstadt en Boetzlaar (or Willemstad en Boetselaar) that the British Royal Navy captured on 18 August 1795 at the Capitulation of Saldanha Bay.

The Amsterdam Chapter of the Dutch East India Company hired Williamstadt en Boetzlaar.

She sailed from Texel on 22 December 1794, under the command of Captain Simon Koter (or Kooter), bound for Batavia.

[2] She was one of five merchant vessels that the British Royal Navy captured at Simon's Bay on 18 August 1795.

Commander Samuel Colquitt recommissioned in June 1803 as a floating battery for Lymington and Liverpool.