HMS Pique was a wooden fifth-rate sailing frigate of the Royal Navy, designed by Sir William Symonds.

Pique was the first of a new class of medium-sized frigates designed by Sir William Symonds, Chief Surveyor of the Navy.

In October the vessel arrived in Portsmouth for repairs where a large rock, which had plugged the hole in her hull, was removed.

For the engagement, Pique was assigned to the far northern end of the line, north-northeast of the much larger HMS Waterloo and at a greater distance from the city than the rest of Stopford's fleet.

From 1872 she was a receiving ship, and from 1882 rented as a hospital hulk to Plymouth Borough Council to quarantine sailors who had fallen victim to a cholera epidemic.