She was commissioned into the Royal Navy in March 1794 under Lieutenant David Hamline for the Channel Islands.

[1] She and several of her sister ships — (Lion, Repulse, Tiger, and Scorpion) — formed part of a short-lived squadron under Philippe d'Auvergne at Jersey in the Channel Islands.

Eagle was paid off in 1795 and then lent to the Royal Navy's Transport Board in March 1796.

[1] On 31 January 1799, she was driven ashore in Studland Bay on the coast of the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset in England,[2] but she was refloated and returned to service.

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