HMS Hannibal (1854)
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HMS Hannibal was a 91-gun second rate Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". built for the Royal Navy during the 1850s. Completed in 1854, she played a minor role in the Crimean War of 1854–1855.
Description
Hannibal measured Script error: No such module "convert". on the gundeck and Script error: No such module "convert". on the keel. She had a beam of Script error: No such module "convert"., a depth of hold of Script error: No such module "convert".,[1] a deep draught of Script error: No such module "convert".[2] and had a tonnage of 3130 tons burthen. The ship was fitted with a horizontal, geared, two-cylinder single-expansion steam engine built by Scott, Sinclair & Co. that had been taken from the frigate HMS Greenock. It was rated at 450 nominal horsepower and drove a single propeller shaft. Her boilers provided enough steam to give the engine Script error: No such module "convert". that was good for a speed of Script error: No such module "convert".. Her crew numbered 850 officers and ratings.[1]
The ship's muzzle-loading, smoothbore armament consisted of thirty-two [[ML 8-inch shell gun|Template:Cvt shell guns]] on her lower gundeck and thirty-four 32-pounder (56 cwt) guns[Note 1] on her upper gundeck. Between her forecastle and quarterdeck, she carried twenty-four 32-pounder (42 cwt) guns and a single 68-pounder gun.[1]
Construction and career
Hannibal was ordered as a 90-gun second rate Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". on 12 March 1840, but was never laid down. The ship was reordered to a John Edye design on 19 June 1847 that was lengthened from the modified Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". design of the same year. She was laid down at Woolwich Dockyard in December 1848. The ship was reordered again as a steam-powered, 90-gun second rate on 23 September 1852. The conversion was ordered on 30 October and work began the same day which included inserting a Script error: No such module "convert". section into the ship's middle to accommodate the steam engine. She was launched on 31 January 1854 and was commissioned by Captain Frederick Grey on 18 March 1854. Hannibal was completed for sea on 22 June.[3]
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She served in the Crimean War, initially as the flagship of Commodore Grey, commanding the fleet bringing 10,000 French troops to the Åland Islands. By 25 January 1855, the ship was flagship of Rear-Admiral Houston Stewart in the Black Sea and was commanded by Captain John Charles Dalrymple Hay.[1]
She was used to transport Garibaldi's soldiers in Italy. The ship arrived in Naples in July 1860. In November a smallpox epidemic broke out, and in ten days 90 men from this ship and at least one other had caught the disease. Seven of those who died were buried in the English Cemetery, Naples.[4] She was hulked in 1874 and broken up in 1904.[1]
Notes
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- ↑ "Cwt" is the abbreviation for hundredweight, 56 cwt referring to the weight of the gun.
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