HMS Eagle

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HMS Eagle was the name of eighteen ships in the history of the Royal Navy , named after the English word for eagle :

  • The first HMS Eagle was a merchant ship that was purchased in 1592 and used as the Hulk until it was sold in 1683.
  • The second HMS Eagle was the French Prize Aigle , a 12-gun ship that was captured in 1650 and sold again in 1655.
  • The third HMS Eagle was the 1660 renamed HMS Selby with 22 cannons, which had been used as a fire since 1674 and sank in 1694 after a grounding.
  • The fourth HMS Eagle was a 6-cannon fire, captured by the barbarian states in 1670 and lost in service in 1671.
  • The fifth HMS Eagle , another 6-gun Brander, was acquired in 1672 and sank in 1673.
  • The sixth HMS Eagle was a 70-gun, 3rd class ship launched in 1679, rebuilt in 1699, and lost in 1707.
  • The seventh HMS Eagle , a 10-gun Aviso , was launched in 1696 and lost in 1703.
  • The eighth HMS Eagle was a fire that was sunk as a breakwater in 1745 .
  • The ninth HMS Eagle , a 58-gun 4th class ship, was launched in 1745 and sold in 1767.
  • The tenth HMS Eagle was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1754 , the further fate of which is unknown.
  • The eleventh HMS Eagle , a two-decker with 64 guns, was launched in 1774, was the first ship ever to be attacked by a submarine , the Turtle , in 1776 , renamed HMS Buckingham in 1800 and scrapped in 1812.
  • The twelfth HMS Eagle , an early Dutch 4-gun coastal sailor, was purchased in 1794 and sold again in 1804.
  • The thirteenth HMS Eagle was the French 12-gun brig Venteux , captured in 1803 and later renamed the HMS Eclipse before being sold in 1807.
  • The fourteenth HMS Eagle was a 74-gun 3rd class ship, launched in 1804, reduced to 50 guns in 1830, used as a stationary training ship for the Royal Naval Reserve from 1860, renamed HMS Eaglet in 1918 , and a fire in 1926 was destroyed.
  • The fifteenth HMS Eagle was a brig built in 1812 that was captured by the Americans that same year, recaptured the following year, renamed HMS Chubb , and sold in 1822.
  • When it was launched in 1918 and commissioned in 1924, the sixteenth HMS Eagle was one of the first aircraft carriers , created by converting the unfinished Chilean battleship Almirante Cochrane , and was sunk in 1942 by torpedo hits by U 73 .
  • The seventeenth HMS Eagle , an Audacious-class aircraft carrier, was originally started as HMS Audacious, launched in 1946, entered service in 1951, fundamentally rebuilt from 1959 to 1964 and scrapped in 1978.
  • In addition, another ship carried the name HMS Eagle Shallop , a sloop with 6 cannons, which was built in 1648 and was in the ship lists until 1653.