HMS Eagle
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Eighteen ships of the Royal Navy
have borne the name HMS Eagle, after the eagle
.
There was also HMS Eagle Shallop, a 6-gun sloop built in 1648 and listed until 1653.
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
have borne the name HMS Eagle, after the eagle
Eagle
Eagles are members of the bird family Accipitridae, and belong to several genera which are not necessarily closely related to each other. Most of the more than 60 species occur in Eurasia and Africa. Outside this area, just two species can be found in the United States and Canada, nine more in...
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- HMS Eagle was an ex-merchantman purchased in 1592 and in use as a careening hulk. She was sold in 1683.
- HMS Eagle was a 12-gun ship, previously the French ship Aigle, captured in 1650 and sold in 1655.
- HMS Eagle was a 22-gun armed ship, previously named HMS Selby. She was renamed HMS Eagle in 1660, used as a fireship from 1674 and sunk as a foundation in 1694.
- HMS Eagle was a 6-gun fireship captured from the Algerians in 1670 and expended in 1671.
- HMS Eagle was a 6-gun fireship purchased in 1672 and foundered in 1673.
- HMS EagleHMS Eagle (1679)HMS Eagle was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1679.She underwent a rebuild at Chatham Dockyard in 1699, retaining her armament of 70 guns....
was a 70-gun third rate launched in 1679, rebuilt in 1699 and wrecked in 1707. - HMS Eagle was a 10-gun advice boat launched in 1696 and wrecked in 1703.
- HMS EagleHMS Eagle (1745)HMS Eagle was a 58-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Harwich to the dimensions laid down in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 2 December 1745. Eagle is notable as being one of the ships on which James Cook began his career in the Royal Navy...
was a fireship sunk in 1745 as a breakwaterBreakwater (structure)Breakwaters are structures constructed on coasts as part of coastal defence or to protect an anchorage from the effects of weather and longshore drift.-Purposes of breakwaters:...
. - HMS EagleHMS Eagle (1745)HMS Eagle was a 58-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Harwich to the dimensions laid down in the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment, and launched on 2 December 1745. Eagle is notable as being one of the ships on which James Cook began his career in the Royal Navy...
was a 58-gun fourth rate launched in 1745 and sold in 1767. - HMS Eagle was a 14-gun sloopSloopA sloop is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter....
launched in 1745. Her fate is unknown. - HMS EagleHMS Eagle (1774)HMS Eagle was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 May 1774 at Rotherhithe.On 7 September 1776, the experimental American submarine Turtle, under the guidance of Army volunteer Sergeant Ezra Lee, attacked HMS Eagle, which was moored off what is today called Liberty...
was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1774. She was attacked by the submersible TurtleTurtle (submarine)The Turtle was the world's first submersible with a documented record of use in combat. It was built in Old Saybrook, Connecticut in 1775 by American Patriot David Bushnell as a means of attaching explosive charges to ships in a harbor...
during the American Revolution, was placed on harbour service from 1790 and renamed HMS Buckingham in 1800. She was broken up in 1812. - HMS Eagle was a 4-gun gunvessel, formerly a Dutch hoyHoy (boat)A hoy was a small sloop-rigged coasting ship or a heavy barge used for freight, usually displacing about 60 tons. The word derives from the Middle Dutch hoey. In 1495, one of the Paston Letters included the phrase, An hoye of Dorderycht , in such a way as to indicate that such contact was then...
purchased in 1794. She was sold in 1804. - HMS Eagle was a 12-gun gun-brig, previously the French ship Venteux. LoireFrench frigate Loire (1797)The Loire was a 44-gun frigate of the French Navy.-French service and capture:She took part in the Expédition d'Irlande, and in the Battle of Tory Island, where she battled , , and . After the battle, Loire and Sémillante escaped into Black Sod Bay, where they hoped to hide until they had a clear...
captured her in 1803. She was renamed HMS Eclipse in 1804 and was sold in 1807. - HMS EagleHMS Eagle (1804)HMS Eagle was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 February 1804 at Northfleet.In 1830 she was reduced to a 50-gun ship, and became a training ship in 1860. She was renamed HMS Eaglet in 1919, when she was the Royal Naval Reserve training centre for North West...
was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1804. She was reduced to 50 guns in 1830, and then became a training school in 1860, being renamed HMS EagletHMS Eaglet (shore establishment)HMS Eaglet is a training centre for the Royal Naval Reserve. It serves Merseyside, North West England and North Wales, HMS Eaglet trains over 300 reservists each year and shares a new building with RMR Merseyside in Liverpool.-History:...
in 1918. She was lost in a fire in 1926 and the wreck was sold in 1927. - HMS Eagle was a brigBrigA brig is a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts. During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and manoeuvrable and were used as both naval warships and merchant vessels. They were especially popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries...
built in 1812 and serving as a tender to . She was captured by the American vessel Yankee on 4 July 1812. The British recaptured her in September 1813 and renamed HMS Chubb. She was sold in 1822. was an American gunboat captured at the Battle of Lake BorgneBattle of Lake BorgneThe Battle of Lake Borgne was a naval battle between the Royal Navy and the United States Navy in the American South theatre of the War of 1812. It occurred on 14 December 1814 on Lake Borgne and was part of the British advance on New Orleans.-Background:...
on 14 December 1814. She remained in service until at least 4 June 1815. Prize money for her and the other vessels captured at the battle was paid in July 1821. - HMS EagleHMS Eagle (1918)HMS Eagle was an early aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. Ordered by Chile as the Almirante Cochrane, she was laid down before World War I. In early 1918 she was purchased by Britain for conversion to an aircraft carrier; this work was finished in 1924...
was an early aircraft carrierAircraft carrierAn aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a naval force to project air power worldwide without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations...
, converted from an unfinished Chilean battleship, the Almirante Cochrane, launched in 1918, and sunk in 1942. - HMS Eagle was to have been an Audacious class carrierAudacious class aircraft carrierThe Audacious class aircraft carriers were a class of ship proposed by the British government in the 1930s - 1940s.- History :The Audacious class was originally designed as an expansion of the Implacable class with double storied hangars...
, laid down in 1944, but cancelled in 1945. - HMS EagleHMS Eagle (R05)HMS Eagle was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy, in service 1951-1972. With her sister ship , she is one of the two largest British aircraft carriers yet built....
was an Audacious class aircraft carrier originally designated HMS Audacious, launched in 1946 and broken up in 1978.
There was also HMS Eagle Shallop, a 6-gun sloop built in 1648 and listed until 1653.