HMS Eagle (1804)

	Eagle
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Eagle
Ordered	4 February 1800
Builder	Pitcher, Northfleet
Laid down	August 1800
Launched	27 February 1804
Fate	Burnt, 1926
General characteristics
Class and type	Repulse-class ship of the line
Tons burthen	1923 (bm)
Length	174 ft (53 m) (gundeck)
Beam	47 ft 4 in (14.43 m)
Depth of hold	20 ft (6.1 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns; Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns; QD: 14 × 9-pounder guns; Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns;

HMS Eagle was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 February 1804 at Northfleet.^[1]

On 31 March, she was driven ashore and severely damaged at Northfleet. She was taken into dock for repairs.^[2] On 11 November 1804, Glatton, together with Eagle, Majestic, Princess of Orange, Raisonable, Africiane, Inspector, Beaver, and the hired armed vessels Swift and Agnes, shared in the capture of the Upstalsboom, H.L. De Haase, Master.^{[Note 1]}

Eagle returned to the Downs in early 1814. In January 1815 she was in Chatham dockyard undergoing repair. In 1830 she was reduced to a 50-gun ship. In November 1844 Capt. George B. Martin commissioned her for service on the West Indies and North American station. She was back in Devonport by 1848. In 1860 she was employed by the Coast Guard service at Milford Haven.

She was renamed HMS Eaglet in 1918, when she was the Royal Naval Reserve training centre for North West England. A fire destroyed Eagle in 1926.^[1]