HMS Lily was a 16-gun Racer-class brig-sloop built for the Royal Navy during the 1830s.

The ship's tonnage was 432 17⁄94 tons burthen.

[1] The Racer class was armed with a pair of 9-pounder (or 18-pounder) cannon and fourteen 32-pounder carronades.

[2] Lily, the fifth ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy,[3] was ordered on 10 July 1832, laid down in December 1835 at Pembroke Dockyard, Wales, and launched on 29 September 1837.

[2] She was completed on 12 March 1838 at Plymouth Dockyard and commissioned on 15 December 1837.