3rd Rate ships of the Royal Navy. 1793 to 1815.

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HMS Hannibal (1810)



Hannibal


HMS Hannibal was a Revived Hero Class 74-gun third rate ship of the line, ordered on the 24th of January 1805 and built by Henry Adams at Bucklers Hard. She was laid down in the December of that year and not finally launched until the May of 1810. She was completed at Portsmouth on the 7th of September of that year.

History
GREAT BRITAIN
Name:	HMS Hannibal
Ordered:	24 January 1805
Builder:	Adams, Bucklers Hard
Launched:	May 1810
Fate:	Broken up, December 1833 to Jan 1834.
General characteristics
Class and type:		Revived Hero Class ship of the line
Tons burthen:		1748 (bm)
Length:		176 ft (53.3 m) (gundeck)
Beam:		47 ft 7 in (14.49 m)
Depth of hold:		20 ft 6 in (6.25 m)
Propulsion:		Sails
Sail plan:		Full rigged ship
Armament:		·74 guns: ·Gundeck: 28 × 32 pdrs ·Upper gundeck: 28 × 18 pdrs ·Quarterdeck: 4 × 12 pdrs, 10 × 32 pdr carronades ·Forecastle: 4 × 12 pdrs, 2 × 32 pdr carronades ·Poop deck: 6 × 18 pdr carronades

Service.


HMS Hannibal was commissioned under Captain Thomas Searle in the July of 1810 as the Flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Williams for service at the Scheldt. She then sailed for Portugal on the 6th of October in that same year.


In 1811 under Captain Andrew King she served as Flagship to Rear Admiral Philip Durham in the Baltic. By the December of that year she had changed captains to Captain Thomas Brown. During 1812, now serving in the Channel she came under Captain Michael Seymour who remained in command until 1814. On the 26th of March, Hannibal, Hebrus, and Sparrow encountered the French 40 gun frigates Sultane and Etoile, off Cherbourg whilst they were returning from the Cape Verde Islands and a cruise of commerce raiding. Hannibal set off after Sultane and sent Hebrus and Sparrow after Etoile. Both French vessels were captured the next day. Hannibal captured Sultane without a fight. Hebrus captured Étoile, but only after severe fighting at the ensuing Battle of Jobourg.


Later in the year she sailed with a convoy to the West Indies, and on her return in the August of that year went into ordinary at Plymouth.


Fate.


She was fitted as a lazarette between the July and August of 1825 and was used for harbour service from that date until 1826, when she was moved to Pembroke. Hannibal was broken up there between the December of 1833 and the January of 1834.