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HMS Lively was a 38-gun frigate of the British Royal Navy launched and commissioned in 1804. In October of that year, under the command of Captain (later Vice-Admiral Sir) G.E. Hammond, she joined a squadron commanded by Graham Moore consisting of four frigates, which intercepted and captured a treasure fleet of four frigates carrying bullion from the Caribbean back to Spain, which was, at that time, neutral. In the action that followed one of the Spanish frigates, Clara struck her colours to Lively. These events would later be fictionalised in Patrick O'Brian's novel ''Post Captain'', in which Captain Aubrey is in termporary command of Lively.