HMS Thunder

Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Thunder, while an eleventh was planned but never built:


 * HMS Thunder (1695) was a 5-gun bomb vessel launched in 1695. She was captured by a French privateer in 1696.
 * HMS Thunder (1720) was a 6-gun bomb vessel captured from the Spanish in 1720 and broken up in 1734.
 * HMS Thunder (1740) was an 8-gun bomb vessel launched in 1740. She foundered in a hurricane in 1744.
 * HMS Thunder (1759) was an 8-gun bomb vessel launched in 1759 and sold in 1774.
 * HMS Thunder (1771) was an 8-gun bomb vessel, previously the civilian Racehorse. She was purchased in 1771 and captured by the French 64-gun third rate Vaillant in August 1778 near Rhode Island. The French then destroyed her.
 * HMS Thunder (1779) was an 8-gun bomb vessel launched in 1779. She foundered in 1781.
 * HMS Thunder (1797) was an 8-gun bomb vessel, previously the Dutch Duguse Erwartung. She was captured in 1797 and sold in 1802.
 * HMS Thunder (1803) was an 8-gun bomb vessel, previously the civilian Dasher. She was purchased in 1803 and sold in 1814.
 * HMS Thunder was to have been a bomb vessel. She was ordered in 1812, but was later cancelled.
 * HMS Thunder (1829) was a 12-gun bomb vessel launched in 1829. She was converted to a survey ship in 1833 and was broken up in 1851.
 * HMS Thunder (1855) was a wooden ironclad floating battery launched in 1855 and broken up in 1874.