HMS Restoration was a 70-gun third rate of the Kingdom of England built at Harwich Dockyard in 1677/78.

After a ten-year stint in Ordinary she was commissioned for the War of the English Succession in 1690.

[2] She was ordered in April 1677 to be built at Harwich Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright Isaac Betts (from 26 May 1677).

By 1688 she would carry 70 guns as per the 1685 Establishment, however, the demi-culverins replaced the 12-pounders on the upper deck .

[3] She was ordered rebuilt on 25 February 1699 at Portsmouth under the guidance of Master Shipwright Elias Waffe.

[9] During the Great Storm of 26/27 November 1703, Restoration was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands.

National Heritage List for England.. Local divers found the wreck site in 1980.

[12] They found copper-clad timbers, a cannon, lead pipes and hearth bricks.