HMS Talbot was a 28-gun Atholl-class sixth-rate frigate built for the Royal Navy during the 1820s.

Talbot had a length at the gundeck of 113 feet 8 inches (34.6 m) and 94 feet 8 inches (28.9 m) at the keel. She had a beam of 31 feet 10 inches (9.7 m), a draught of 12 feet (3.7 m) and a depth of hold of 8 feet 9 inches (2.7 m). The ship's tonnage was 500 18⁄94 tons burthen.^[1] The Atholl class was armed with twenty 32-pounder carronades on her gundeck, six 32-pounder carronades on her quarterdeck and a pair of 9-pounder cannon in the forecastle. The ships had a crew of 175 officers and ratings.^[2]

Talbot, the fourth ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy,^[3] was ordered on 30 April 1818, laid down in March 1821 at Pembroke Dockyard, Wales, and launched on 9 October 1824.^[2] She was completed on 21 December 1824 at Plymouth Dockyard and commissioned on 21 September of that year.^[1]

She was a participant at the Battle of Navarino on 20 October 1827.

She took part in Inglefield's 1854 Arctic expedition as a depot ship.

As a powder magazine off Beckton she overlooked the disastrous sinking of SS Princess Alice, a collision on the Thames on 14 September 1878.

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