HMS Pendennis was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Kingdom of England built at Chatham in 1677/79.

She was the first vessel to bear the name Pendennis in the English and Royal Navy.

[1] She was ordered on April 1677 to be built at Chatham Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright Phineas Pett.

[2][3] She was commissioned on 25 September 1688 under the command of Captain Sir William Booth sailing with Dartmouth's Fleet in October 1688. .

[4] Captain George Churchill (brother of the Later Duke of Marlborough) held command in 1690.