HMS Eagle was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard during 1677/79.

She again played an active role in the early part of the War of Spanish Succession participating in the Capture of Gibraltar, and the Battle of Velez Malaga.

She was the seventh vessel to bear the name Eagle since it was used for a careening hulk, an ex-merchantman, purchased in 1592, and sold at Chatham in 1683.

[4] She was ordered in April 1677 to be built at Portsmouth Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright Daniel Furzer.

[5] She was ordered rebuilt at Chatham Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright Daniel Furzer.

[9][10] HMS Eagle was commissioned in 1700 under the command of Captain William Kerr for Admiral Sir George Rooke's Fleet.

In 1702 she came under Captain James Wishart assigned to Admiral Sir George Rooke's Squadron.

[11][9] On 21 September it was learned from a watering expedition to Lagos, Portugal, that the Spanish Treasure Fleet and its French escort was in the vicinity of Vigo Bay.

[13] On August 13, 1704, she fought in the Battle of Velez Malaga[4] as a member of the Center Division, suffering 7 killed and 57 wounded.

Under the command of Captain Robert Hancock,[15] Eagle was lost with all hands off the Scilly Isles on 22 October 1707[10][16] when a disastrous navigational error sent Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell's fleet through dangerous reefs while on their way from Gibraltar to Portsmouth.

It was largely as a result of this disaster that the Board of the Admiralty instituted a competition for a more precise method to determine longitude.