HMS Orpheus was a 36-gun Apollo-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy launched in 1809 from Deptford Dockyard.

In her, during the War of 1812 against the United States, he destroyed the 8-gun letter of marque Wampoe on 28 April 1813, and the 20-gun privateer Holkar on 11 May 1813.

From the end of 1814 he commanded the 50-gun Diomede, and then the frigate Nymphe,[1] on the coast of North America, before returning to England in August 1815.

[4] On 27 April Orpheus chased the American ship Whampoa on shore near Newport, Rhode Island.

[5] On 20 April 1814 the schooner HMS Shelburne (1813), with the frigate Orpheus closing, captured the US sloop Frolic.