Princess Charlotte was an "extra ship’’ of the British East India Company (EIC), launched in 1796.

Princess Charlotte , under the command of Captain Charles Elton Prescott, left Portsmouth on 27 June 1796.

She was carrying as passengers 22 gentleman, five ladies, 15 women and children, and 51 soldiers of the 12th Regiment of Foot, who had had to leave their officer behind at Portsmouth as he was unfit to travel.

Because the whole crew was involved, Prescott anchored in Simons Bay next to the 64-gun, third-rate ship of the line Sceptre, whose marines rowed guard around her that night.

On 6 January she and Earl Howe received orders from the third rate ship of the line HMS Victorious to cruise between the Palmyra Rocks and Pigeon Island.

The government in Bombay armed her with thirty-eight 12-pounder guns and embarked 176 men from the European Regiment to serve as marines.

[4] She served under the command of Rear Admiral John Blankett, who sent her and Fox to the Red Sea to cut the French in Egypt off from India and to prevent them from supporting the Kingdom of Mysore against the British.

She passed Saugor on 5 January 1800, reached Cape Town on 25 April, St Helena on 7 June, and the Downs on 23 September.

Princess Charlotte and the East Indiaman Barnaby were in the Vizagapatam Roads on 18 September and under escort by Centurion when a squadron under Contre-Admiral Charles-Alexandre Durand Linois, in the 74-gun Marengo, arrived.

[1] Because Princess Charlotte had not loaded for her homeward voyage, the EIC reported that it had not lost any cargo.

He was captain of the Indiaman Experiment, which with two other Indiamen in the home-bound convoy, disappeared on 28 October 1808 during a gale off Mauritius.