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Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Thames, after the River Thames:
HMS Thames (1758) 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 (1805) was another 32-gun fifth rate, launched in 1805 and broken up in 1816.
HMS Thames (1805 tender) 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 (1823) 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 (1885) 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; she was finally scuttled in 1947.
HMS Thames (N71) was a River-class submarine launched in 1932 and sunk by a mine in 1940.
HMS Thames (1938), a tugboat in service during World War II
HMS Thames has since 1949 been the name borne by a sequence of Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve tenders.
See also
HCS Thames (1814) was a bomb ketch that the Bombay Dockyard launched for the Bombay Marine, the naval arm of the British East India Company (EIC). At some point after active service she became a luggage ship; her ultimate fate is unknown.
Citations
References
Wadia, R. A. (1986) [1957]. The Bombay Dockyard and the Wadia Master Builders. Bombay.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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