Thames (disambiguation) explained

The Thames is a river in southern England, including the capital, London.

Thames may also refer to:

Places

United Kingdom

• Thames Chase, a community forest in east London
• Thames Estuary, estuary of the River Thames and River Medway
• Thames (Barking and Dagenham ward), a local government ward in London
• Thames (Reading ward), a local government ward in the Borough of Reading

New Zealand

• Firth of Thames, a bay in the North Island
• Thames (New Zealand electorate)
• Thames, New Zealand, a town
  • Thames High School
• Thames River (New Zealand), former name of the Waihou River

Other places

• Thames River (Connecticut), southeastern Connecticut
• Thames River (Ontario), Ontario, Canada
• Thames Street, Rhode Island, Newport, Rhode Island
• Thames Town, in Shanghai, China
• Támesis, Antioquia, in Colombia

Transportation

• HMS Thames, several warships of the Royal Navy
• HMT Thames (1938), a rescue tugboat in the British Royal Navy
• The Thames (steamship), British exploration ship lost in Siberia
• Thames (1818 ship), an 1818 East Indiaman under a license from the British East India Company
• Thames Trader, former British Ford lorry model brand name
• Thames, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915, renamed the Worcester in 1895
• Thames-class lifeboat, class of lifeboat operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) between 1974 and 1997

People

• Eric Thames (born 1986), American baseball player
• Marcus Thames (born 1977), former American baseball player
• Mason Thames (born 2007), American child actor
• José Ignacio Thames (1762–1832), Argentine statesman and priest

Other uses

• Battle of the Thames, part of the War of 1812
• South Thames College, further education college in south west London
• Thames (production company), a British television production company
• Thames Water, London water utility
• Thames Television, former TV broadcaster and production company
• Thames A.F.C., former London football club
• Thames House, headquarters of the British MI5 organization
• Thames Rowing Club, rowing club using the River Thames in Putney, London

See also

• Thame, Oxfordshire, England
• River Thame, a tributary of the River Thames
• The Isis, alternative name for the River Thames near Oxford