HMS Thames

HMS Thames

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS "Thames" , after the River Thames:

* HMS "Thames" was a 32 gun fifth rate launched in 1758 and broken up in 1803. She was in French hands between 1793 and 1796, when she was known as "Tamise".
* HMS "Thames" was another 32 gun fifth rate, launched in 1805 and broken up in 1816.
* HMS "Thames" was a cutter tender built in 1805. She became a dockyard craft in 1866 and was renamed "YC 2". She was sold in 1872.
* HMS "Thames" was an Indian Bomb vessel launched in 1814. Her ultimate fate is unknown.
* HMS "Thames" was a 46 gun fifth rate launched in 1823. She was converted to a prison ship in 1841, and sank at her moorings in 1863.
* HMS "Thames" was a "Mersey" class second class cruiser launched in 1885. She was converted to a depot ship in 1903, and was sold in 1920 to become a training ship at the Cape, being renamed "General Botha". Her name reverted to "Thames" when she became an accommodation ship in 1942, and she was finally scuttled in 1947.
* HMS "Thames" was a River Class submarine launched in 1932 and sunk by a mine in 1940.
* HMS "Thames" has been the name borne by a number of Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve tenders since 1949.

A rescue tug based at Gibraltar during the Second World War was named "Thames", but does not appear to have been formally commissioned.


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