HMS Cholmondely was a 4-gun single-masted cutter of the Royal Navy, purchased in the last days of the Seven Years' War with France.

She was stationed off the Port of Liverpool for eight years from 1763, and was briefly under the command of Lieutenant (and future Admiral) Skeffington Lutwidge.

Cholmondely was one of thirty cutters purchased by the Royal Navy in a three-month period from December 1762 to February 1763, for coastal patrol duties off English ports.

[1] The function of these purchased cutters included convoy and patrol, the carrying of messages between Naval vessels in port, and assisting the press gang in the interception of coastal craft.

In recognition of her future operations within the safer confines of a major seaport, the Navy reduced the number of cannons to four and supported them with ten 1⁄2-pounder swivel guns for anti-personnel use.