HMS Achilles was a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Barnard and Turner at Harwich to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment as amended in 1750, and launched in 1757.

[3] On 4 April 1759 Achilles under Samuel Barrington[4] engaged and captured the 60-gun French coastguard vessel St Florentine in a two-hour battle.

The fleet of four 50-gun ships along with five frigates, a sloop and six bomb ketches destroyed landing barges assembled in the harbour for a possible invasion of England.

On 28 March 1762 Achilles, along with several other warships and transports carrying 10,000 troops, set sail from Saint Helens to attack the French at Belleisle.

Despite remaining "as sound as the day she was launched,"[5] the now-former Achilles was finally retired and broken up for timber in 1791.