HMS Thames (1805)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Thames
Ordered	1 May 1804
Builder	Chatham Dockyard (Shipwright Robert Seppings)
Laid down	July 1804
Launched	24 October 1805
Commissioned	November 1805
Fate	Broken up October 1816
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	32-gun fifth rate Thames-class frigate
Tons burthen	66127⁄94 bm
Length	127 ft 1 in (38.74 m) (overall) 107 ft (33 m) (keel)
Beam	34 ft 1 in (10.39 m)
Depth of hold	11 ft 9 in (3.58 m)
Complement	220
Armament	Upper deck: 26 × 12-pounder guns QD: 8 × 24-pounder carronades Fc: 4 × 24-pounder carronades

HMS Thames was a 32-gun fifth-rate Thames-class frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1805 at Chatham.

A wartime lack of building materials meant that Minerva and her class were built to the outdated 50-year-old design of the Richmond class, and were thus smaller than many contemporary frigates.^[2]