HMS Thames was a 32-gun Richmond-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy built by Henry Adams and launched at Bucklers Hard in 1758.

[1] On 18 May 1759, Thames assisted in the capture of the French frigate Aréthuse, which the Royal Navy commissioned as HMS Arethusa.

At the action of 24 October 1793, while sailing to Gibraltar under Captain James Cotes, she met Jean-François Tartu's Uranie, off Gascony.

In the ensuing engagement she lost her rigging and most of her starboard battery, yet killed Tartu and forced Uranie to disengage.

The next day the frigate Carmagnole, under Zacharie Allemand, and accompanying vessels captured Thames, which was essentially a defenseless hulk.

Under the command of Captain Fradin, Tamise took part in the disastrous campaign of "Grand Hiver" while still with Villaret Joyeuse's fleet.

[7] On 16 January 1801, Thames recaptured Eliza, Brown, master, which the French privateer Uncle Thomas had captured.

[8][9] On 12 May 1800, Thames, Clyde and the hired armed cutter Suwarrow captured a French chasse maree, name unknown.

On 4 June Thames, Cynthia and some smaller vessels attacked the south-west end of Quiberon where the silenced the forts, which a landing party of troops later destroyed.

The two British vessels finally captured the ship Diable à Quatre some 36 leagues (170 km) from the Cordouan lighthouse.

From her, Captain Lukin learned that in the previous three months only two British prizes had come into French or Spanish ports, one into Rochelle and one into Passage.

On 5 July she became becalmed while trying to recall Superb to join the squadron under Rear Admiral Sir James Saumarez.

In subsequent months, assisted by the sloop-of-war Calpe, which had also participated in the battle, she destroyed a number of the enemy's coasters in the bay of Estepona.