HMS Temple was a 68-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 November 1758 at Blaydes Yard in Hull.

[1] Commissioned in January 1759 under the command of Washington Shirley, she saw service at the Battle of Quiberon Bay in November.

With the aid of the cutter Griffin, in September of that year she recaptured the sloop Virgin off Grenada.

[2] Temple operated as part of the fleet at the capture of Havana in 1762, under the command of Julian Legge.

On 18 December of that year, en route home to England, she developed severe leaks off Cape Clear Island and foundered at sea and was lost.