HMS Sheerness was a 24-gun sixth rate frigate of the Royal Navy launched in 1743.

Commanded by Captain O'Brian, she served on patrol duties in the North Sea during the 1745 Jacobite Rising.

In November 1745, she captured a French ship carrying supplies to Montrose, along with a number of Jacobite officers.

They included Charles Radclyffe, de jure Earl of Derwentwater, who was executed at Tower Hill on 8 December 1746.

Its crew disembarked, taking with them £13,000 in gold intended to help finance the Rising, but were intercepted and forced to surrender by government militia.