HMS Friendship was a mercantile vessel, one of 12 that the Royal Navy purchased in 1794 for use as fireships.

None was expended; instead they served as small gunboats, though their armament was not formally established.

[1] Mister Bromwick commissioned Friendship in May 1794.

By one account she was broken up at Woolwich in September or November 1801.

[1] However, the "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered Friendship (1st) for sale on 2 March 1802 at Plymouth.