HMS Talbot was a 28-gun Atholl-class sixth-rate frigate built for the Royal Navy during the 1820s.

[2] Talbot, the fourth ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy,[3] was ordered on 30 April 1818, laid down in March 1821 at Pembroke Dockyard, Wales, and launched on 9 October 1824.

[2] She was completed on 21 December 1824 at Plymouth Dockyard and commissioned on 21 September of that year.

She took part in Inglefield's 1854 Arctic expedition as a depot ship.

As a powder magazine off Beckton she overlooked the disastrous sinking of SS Princess Alice, a collision on the Thames on 14 September 1878.