HMS Culloden was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built according to the dimensions laid out by the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Deptford Dockyard, and launched on 9 September 1747.

Her dimensions matched those of an Establishment 80-gun ship, but she was pierced with more gunports on her gundecks.

They gained great honour in bravely and resolutely withstanding, for near three hours, the continual firing from numberless batteries; some they did and others they could not see.

Culloden saw active service during the Seven Years' War, including as part of Britain's ongoing blockade of the French port of Toulon in 1759.

On 7 June 1759 she was sent close to the port as part of an attempt to burn two French ships that had taken shelter there.