HMS Terpsichore was a T-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War.

The turbines developed a total of 40,000 shaft horsepower (30,000 kW) and gave a maximum speed of 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph).

Terpsichore carried a maximum of 615 long tons (625 t) of fuel oil that gave her a range of 4,675 nautical miles (8,658 km; 5,380 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph).

**, 2nd son of Sir Archibald White, Bt., of Wallingwells), as the lead destroyer in the escort group of the USS Mississippi into Tokyo Bay.

Between 1953 and 1954 she was converted to a Type 16 fast anti-submarine frigate, by Thornycroft, Woolston, with the new pennant number F19.