HMS Eagle

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About fifteen ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Eagle, after the eagle.

• The first Eagle was the French ship Aigle, captured in 1650 and taken into the Navy, then sold in 1655.
• The tenth Eagle was a 3rd rate ship of the line that was attacked by the submersible Turtle during the American Revolution.
• The fourteenth Eagle was an early aircraft carrier, converted from an unfinished Chilean battleship Almirante Cochrane and launched in 1918, and sunk in 1942.
• A 36,800 ton Audacious class carrier to be named Eagle was laid down on 19 April 1944, but cancelled the following year.
• The fifteenth Eagle (R05) was one of the Navy's largest aircraft carrier, in service from 1951 to 1972.

See also HMS Eaglet.

• A careening hulk of 894 tons named Eagle is recorded as purchased in 1592 and sold in 1683, but was not a commissioned ship.