HMS 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.[1]

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Eagle and HMS Eaglet.

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 [1]
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

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]

Notes
  1. The prize money for an ordinary seaman was 10d.[2]

References
  1. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p185.
  2. "No. 16322". The London Gazette. 5 December 1809. p. 1960.

Bibliography
  • Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.


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