HMS Nymphe was a 38-gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, launched on 13 April 1812 at Woolwich Dockyard, and commissioned later that month.

It was probably the most successful British frigate design of the Napoleonic Wars, to which fifteen more sister ships would be ordered between 1803 and 1812.

[1] On 10 October 1813, the Nymphe gave chase to three frigates and a brig-sloop commanded by Commodore Rodgers that had slipped out of Boston two days prior.

[4] Present aboard the Nymphe was the future historian Henry Edward Napier who kept a journal from March 1814 to September 1814, whilst blockading New England.

[5] Under the rules of prize-money, Herald shared in the proceeds of the capture of six American vessels in the Battle of Lake Borgne on 14 December 1814.

In 1821 the survivors of the flotilla shared in the distribution of head-money arising from the capture of the American gun-boats and sundry bales of cotton.