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. She served in several wars, including for some four years in French service after her capture. She was recaptured in 1796 and was broken up in 1803.
The capture of the French Frigate Tamise by Santa Margarita, under the command of Captain T. Byam Martin, off the Scilly Isles, 8 June 1796. Nicholas Pocock
Fine deed of arms by Captain Troude, Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio. Thames is in the right foreground.
Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet
Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Troubridge, 1st Baronet was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he saw action at the Battle of Sadras in February 1782 during the American Revolutionary War and the Battle of Trincomalee in September 1782 during the Anglo-French War. He commanded the third-rate Culloden at the Battle of Cape St Vincent in February 1797 during the French Revolutionary Wars. He went on to be First Naval Lord and then served as Commander-in-Chief, East Indies, during the Napoleonic Wars.
Troubridge as a rear-admiral, painted 1804–5 by Sir William Beechey
The Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797 by Robert Cleveley