HMS Thetis

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Thetis, named after the sea-nymph in Greek mythology:

• Template:HMS was a 22-gun storeship launched in 1717. Her fate is unknown.
• Template:HMS was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1747. She became a hospital ship in 1757 and was sold in 1767.
• Template:HMS was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1773 and wrecked entering the Careenage at St. Lucia Bay in 1781.<ref>Hepper (1994), p.62-63.</ref>
• Template:HMS was a 38-gun fifth rate launched in 1782 and sold in 1814.
• Template:HMS was an 8-gun schooner purchased in 1796 and listed until 1800.
• HMS Thetis was a 24-gun sixth rate that the Royal Navy captured from the Dutch at Demerara in 1796 and later scuttled there. She was a Dutch 7th Charter frigate built at Amsterdam and launched in 1785. Her dimensions, in Dutch feet of 11 Rotterdam inches, were: 125' 7/11" x 34' x 13' 2/11".<ref>van Maanen.</ref>
• Template:HMS was a 10-gun gun-brig launched in 1810 and on the lists until at least 1836.
• Template:HMS was a 46-gun fifth rate launched in 1817 and wrecked off Arraial do Cabo (near Cape Frio) in 1830.<ref>Hepper (1994), p.161.</ref>
• Template:HMS was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1846 and transferred to Prussia in 1855 in exchange for two gunboats.
• Template:HMS was a Template:Sclass wooden screw corvette launched in 1871 and sold in 1887.
• Template:HMS was an Template:Sclass second-class protected cruiser launched in 1890. She was used as a minelayer from 1907 and was sunk in 1918 as a blockship at Zeebrugge.
• Template:HMS was a T-class submarine launched in 1938. She sank during trials but was salvaged and recommissioned as HMS Thunderbolt. The Italian corvette Cicogna sank Thunderbolt in 1943.

See also

• Thetis Island
• Thetis Lake
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References

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| first1 = J. J. 
| author-link1= J. J. Colledge
| last2 = Warlow
| first2 = Ben
| date = 2006
| orig-date = 1969
| title = Ships of the Royal Navy: {{#if:|The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy|The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy}}
| edition = Rev.
| location = London
| publisher = Chatham Publishing
| isbn = 978-1-86176-281-8

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• Template:Cite book
• van Maanen, Ron, Preliminary list of Dutch naval vessel built or required in the period 1700-1799. Unpublished manuscript.[1]