HMS Hannibal (1786)
HMS Hannibal (left foreground) lies aground and dismasted at the First Battle of Algeciras.
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| Name: | HMS Hannibal |
| Ordered: | 19 June 1782 |
| Builder: | Perry, Blackwall Yard |
| Laid down: | April 1783 |
| Launched: | 15 April 1786 |
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Participated in: First Battle of Algeciras |
| Captured: | 6 July 1801 by the French at the First Battle of Algeciras |
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| Name: | Annibal |
| Acquired: | 6 July 1801 |
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| Class and type: | Culloden-class ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: | 1619 (bm) |
| Length: | 170 ft (52 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam: | 47 ft 2 in (14.38 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 19 ft 11 in (6.07 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
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HMS Hannibal was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 April 1786, named after the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca. She is best known for having taken part in the Algeciras Campaign, and for having run aground during the First Battle of Algeciras on 5 July 1801, which resulted in her capture. She then served in the French Navy until she was broken up in 1824.
Hannibal was commissioned in August 1787 under Captain Roger Boger.
In May 1790 Hannibal was recommissioned under Captain John Colpoys. She was recommissioned in August 1791 for service as a guardship at Plymouth. When war with France became increasing likely towards end of 1792 the guardships at the three naval seaports were ordered to rendezvous at Spithead. Hannibal and the other Plymouth-based ships left on 11 December and arrived at Spithead the next day. The guardships from the other ports took longer to arrive.
On 15 February 1793 she and HMS Hector left on a cruise during which at some point they pursued two French frigates. They captured a French merchant ship, the Etoille du Matin, on 23 February. They returned on 4 March. They then were fitted for service in the West Indies and on 24 March left with the fleet under Rear-Admiral Sir Alan Gardner.Hannibal returned to Britain in early 1794, and underwent fitting at Plymouth from March to December.
Captain John Markham took command of Hannibal in August 1794. On 10 April 1795 Rear-Admiral Colpoys, while cruising with a squadron composed of five ships of the line and three frigates, chased three French frigates. HMS Colossus got within gunshot of one of them and opened fire, at which the frigates took different courses. HMS Robust and Hannibal pursued two; the 32-gun fifth-rate frigate HMS Astraea pursued and captured the 36-gun Gloire after an hour-long fight at the Action of 10 April 1795. The next day Hannibal captured the French 36-gun frigate Gentille, but the Fraternité escaped. The Gentille lost eight men killed and fifteen wounded; Hannibal had four men wounded. The Royal Navy took Gentille into service.
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