HMS Providence (1791)

HMS Providence (1791)

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.

The "Providence" was purchased on the stocks from Perry & Co, Blackwall in February 1791. She was launched on 23 April 1791 and commissioned under Bligh that month. She was coppered at Woolwich for the sum of £1,267, and then again at Deptford for £3,981.

Rated as a sixth rate, she sailed for the Pacific on 2 August 1791. Bligh completed a mission to collect breadfruit trees and other botanical specimens from the Pacific, which he transported to the West Indies. Specimens were given to the Royal Botanic Gardens in St. Vincent. "Providence" returned to Britain in February 1794, having been re-rated as a sloop on 30 September 1793. She underwent another refit at Woolwich and was recommissioned in October 1793 under the command of Commander William Robert Broughton. Broughton was ordered to rejoin the Vancouver Expedition and departed Britain on 15 February 1795. Reaching Monterrey long after the expedition made its final departure, Robert decided (correctly) that Vancouver would not have left his surveying task unfinished and departed to chart the coast of east Asia.

In the course of his explorations, he named Caroline Island"Carolina" (which later became "Caroline") "in compliment to the daughter of Sir P. Stephens of the Admiralty."cite journal | first = A.K. | last = Kepler | authorlink = | coauthors = C.B. Kepler | year = 1994 | month = February | title = The natural history of the Caroline Atoll, Southern Line Islands | journal = Atoll Research Bulletin | volume = 397–398|url = http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/arb/397-398/ ] . This name superseded that given by Pedro Fernández de Quirós, a Portuguese explorer sailing on behalf of Spain; his account names the island "San Bernardo."cite journal | first = A.K. | last = Kepler | authorlink = | coauthors = C.B. Kepler | year = 1994 | month = February | title = The natural history of the Caroline Atoll, Southern Line Islands | journal = Atoll Research Bulletin | volume = 397–398 | url = http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/arb/397-398/ ]

"Providence" voyaged to Asia as the crew surveyed the coast of Hokkaidō before wintering at Macau. There Broughton purchased a small schooner which proved providential when, on 16 May 1797 "Providence" was wrecked at Miyako-jima, south of Okinawa. Broughton and his crew continued the mission in the schooner, exploring northeast Asia, and returned home in February 1799.

References

*Colledge
* Winfield, Rif, "British Warships of the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates", pub Seaforth, 2007, ISBN 1-86176-295-X


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