HMS Suffolk was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by contract of 20 February 1678 by Sir Henry Johnson at Blackwall.

She participated in the War of the English Succession 1689 - 1697, in the Battles of Beachy Head and Barfleur.

Her later career was as guard ship duties, deployments to the Baltic Sea and the West Indies.

[2] HMS Suffolk was awarded the Battle Honours Barfleur 1692,[3] Gibraltar 1704,[4] and Velez-Malaga 1704.

[5] Suffolk was ordered on 20 February 1678 to be built under contract by Sir Henry Johnson of Blackwall on the River Thames.

[8][7] Suffolk was commissioned on 11 August 1680 under the command of Captain John Perryman for delivery to Chatham Dockyard.

Suffolk fought in the Battle of Beachy Head in the centre (red) squadron on 30 June.

[11][13] Suffolk was commissioned in 1701 under Captain Thomas Foulis and stationed at Spithead with a reduced crew.

With the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession in May 1702, she was under Captain Edward Good sailing with Sir Cloudesley Shovell's fleet in October.

In 1703 she was under Captain Robert Kirton assigned to Sir George Rooke's fleet.

In 1708 Captain William Clevland was her commander with Admiral George Byng's fleet in the English Channel.

[11] Suffolk was ordered to be rebuilt or repaired at Chatham Dockyard under the guidance of Benjamin Rosewell on 8 March 1716.

[16][13] Suffolk was commissioned in 1719 under the command of Captain Charles Stewart for service with Admiral Sir John Norris's Baltic Fleet.

[16] Suffolk was ordered rebuilt on 3 December 1735 at Woolwich Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright John Hayward.

Upon returning to home waters, she was assigned to Norris's fleet for service in the English Channel.

In 1745 she was under the broad pennant of Commodore FitzRoy Henry Lee in the Leeward Islands.