HMS "Achille" was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built by Cleverley Bros., a private shipyard at Gravesend, and launched on 16 April 1798. Her design was based on the lines of the captured French ship "Pompée" . She was the fourth Royal Navy ship to be named after the Greek hero Achilles in the French style.
The HMS Achille mounted 47 guns and was the seventh ship of it's name that the Royal Navy had commissioned. 