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HMS ''Hannibal'' was originally planned as a 90-gun 
second rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a second-rate was a ship of the line which by the start of the 18th century mounted 90 to 98 guns on three gun decks; earlier 17th-century second rates had fewer guns ...
ship of the line, to be built at Woolwich Dockyard
Woolwich Dockyard (formally H.M. Dockyard, Woolwich, also known as The King's Yard, Woolwich) was an English naval dockyard along the river Thames at Woolwich in north-west Kent, where many ships were built from the early 16th century until th ...
. She was ordered on 14 May 1840, but cancelled and re-ordered. This ship was also named HMS ''Hannibal'', and used the new screw propulsion technology. She was a 91-gun second rate, built at Deptford Dockyard
Deptford Dockyard was an important naval dockyard and base at Deptford on the River Thames, operated by the Royal Navy from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. It built and maintained warships for 350 years, and many significant events ...
by Charles Willcox, Master Shipwright, and launched on 31 January 1854. She served in the Crimean War
The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia.
Geopolitical causes of the war included the ...
, commanded by John Charles Dalrymple Hay.
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
The English Cemetery, ''Il Cimitero degli Inglesi'', or more correctly, ''Il Cimitero acattolico di Santa Maria delle Fede'', is located near Piazza Garibaldi, Naples, Italy. It was the final resting place of many Swiss, Germans, Americans, Iri ...
.Giancarlo Alisio, ''Il Cimitero degli Inglesi'', Naples, 1993,
She was hulked in 1874 and broken up in 1904, after 50 years in service.
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