HMS Sunderland was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the 1719 Establishment at Chatham Dockyard, and launched on 30 April 1724.

[1] On 25 December 1742 Sunderland was ordered to be taken to pieces for rebuilding as a 58-gun fourth rate to the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Portsmouth Dockyard, from where she was relaunched on 4 April 1744.

She sailed in convoy with the 74-gun HMS Grafton and the East Indiaman Pitt.

The storm overwhelmed her and she foundered six miles north of the anchorage; 376 of her crew died and 17 survived.

HMS Duc D'Aquitaine foundered in much the same manner as Sunderland, and with a similar outcome.