HMS Hannibal
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Six ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hannibal after the Carthaginian leader Hannibal:
- {{HMS|Hannibal|1779}} was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1779 and captured by the French in 1782.
- {{HMS|Hannibal|1782}} was a 14-gun sloop purchased in 1782, and foundered in 1788.
- {{HMS|Hannibal|1786}} was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1786 and captured by the French during the first part of the Battle of Algeciras Bay on 5 July 1801.
- {{HMS|Hannibal|1810}} was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1810. She was on harbour service from 1825 and was broken up in 1833.
- HMS Hannibal was to have been a 90-gun second rate. She was ordered in 1840, but was cancelled and reordered as the next {{HMS|Hannibal|1854|6}}.
- {{HMS|Hannibal|1854}} was a 91-gun screw propelled second rate launched in 1854. She was hulked in 1874 and was sold in 1904.
- {{HMS|Hannibal|1896}} was a {{sclass|Majestic|battleship}} launched in 1896. She served as a troopship during the First World War and was sold in 1920.
Shore establishment
- {{HMS|Hannibal|shore establishment}} was a naval base, commissioned at Algiers in 1943 and paid off in 1945. It was recommissioned in 1945 and paid off in 1946.
Hired armed vessel
- {{ship|Hired armed ship|Hannibal}} was a ship of about 16 guns that the Royal Navy hired in 1804 and lost on 16 November of that same year near Sandown, Isle of Wight.
See also
- {{ship|French ship|Annibal}}
- {{USS|Hannibal}}
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