HMS Active was a 28-gun Coventry-class sixth-rate sailing frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1758. She was one of the captors of the Spanish ship Hermione. After Hermione surrendered, her captors found that she carried a large cargo of gold and silver that would lead to the greatest single amount of prize money awarded to the crew of a British warship. On 1 September 1778 the French frigates Charmante and captured Active after a storm had dismasted her. The French Navy took Active into service under her existing name. She was broken up in 1795.