Eight ships of the
Royal Navy
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have borne the name HMS ''Thames'', after the
River Thames
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* was a 32-gun
fifth rate
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launched in 1758 and broken up in 1803. She was in French hands between 1793 and 1796, when she was known as ''Tamise''.
* was another 32-gun fifth rate, launched in 1805 and broken up in 1816.
* was a
cutter tender built in 1805. She became a dockyard craft in 1866 and was renamed ''YC 2''. She was sold in 1872.
* was a 46-gun fifth rate launched in 1823. She was converted to a
prison ship
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in 1841, and sank at her moorings in 1863.
* was a second-class
cruiser
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launched in 1885. She was converted to a depot ship in 1903, and was sold in 1920 to become a
training ship
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at the
Cape
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, being renamed ''General Botha''. Her name reverted to ''Thames'' when she became an
accommodation ship
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in 1942; she was finally scuttled in 1947.
* was a launched in 1932 and sunk by a
mine in 1940.
* , a
tugboat
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in service during World War II
* HMS ''Thames'' has since 1949 been the name borne by a sequence of
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
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tenders.
See also
* was a
bomb
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ketch that the
Bombay Dockyard
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launched for the Bombay Marine, the naval arm of the British
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(EIC). At some point after active service she became a luggage ship; her ultimate fate is unknown.
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Royal Navy ship names