HMS Thunder

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

HMS Thunder was a 5-gun bomb vessel launched in 1695. She was captured by a French privateer in 1696.
HMS Thunder was a 6-gun bomb vessel captured from the Spanish in 1720 and broken up in 1734.
HMS Thunder was an 8-gun bomb vessel launched in 1740. She foundered in a hurricane in 1744.
HMS Thunder was an 8-gun bomb vessel launched in 1759 and sold in 1774.
HMS Thunder 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.^[1]
HMS Thunder was an 8-gun bomb vessel launched in 1779. She foundered in 1781.
HMS Thunder was an 8-gun bomb vessel, previously the Dutch Guter Erwartung. She was captured in 1797. Reportedly her crew mutinied in 1800 and took her into Bilbao.^[2] This may have been mistaken as the Royal Navy paid her off in 1801, and sold her in 1802.
HMS Thunder 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 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 was a wooden ironclad floating battery launched in 1855 and broken up in 1874.

Citations

Demerliac, Alain (1996) La Marine De Louis XVI: Nomenclature Des Navires Français De 1774 À 1792. (Nice: Éditions OMEGA). ISBN 2-906381-23-3