HMS Providence was a sloop of the Royal Navy, famous for being commanded by William Bligh on his second breadfruit voyage between 1791 and 1794.

Bligh completed a mission to collect breadfruit trees and other botanical specimens from the Pacific, which he transported to the West Indies.

Reaching Monterrey long after the expedition made its final departure, Broughton decided (correctly) that Vancouver would not have left his surveying task unfinished and departed to chart the coast of east Asia.

[1] Broughton and his crew continued the mission in the schooner, exploring northeast Asia, and returned home in February 1799.

"[7][8][9] In 2008, a diving survey conducted by the Okinawa Prefectural Buried Cultural Properties Center found the remains of a foreign ship, believed to those of Providence, in Yabiji.