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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. ==Early service== ''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.〔''Publications of the Navy Records Society'', (1951), Vol. 91.〕 On 15 February 1793 she and 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.〔〔Norie (1827), p.145.〕 ''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. got within gunshot of one of them and opened fire, at which the frigates took different courses. and ''Hannibal'' pursued two; the 32-gun fifth-rate frigate 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.〔Norie (1827), 151.〕 The ''Gentille'' lost eight men killed and fifteen wounded; ''Hannibal'' had four men wounded. The Royal Navy took into service. Ten British warships, ''Hannibal'' being one of them, shared in the proceeds of the recapture of the ''Caldicot Castle'' on 28 March 1795 and the capture on 30 March of the French corvette ''Jean Bart''. On 14 May 1795 ''Hannibal'' sailed for Jamaica. On 21 October, while on the West Indies station, ''Hannibal'' captured the 8-gun French privateer schooner ''Grand Voltigeur''. Three days later she captured the 12-gun French privateer ''Convention''. On 13 November she captured the French privateer ''Petit Tonnerre''. Markham left ''Hannibal'' in December.〔Norie (1827), 481.〕 His successor, in January 1796, was Captain T. Lewis.〔 On 27 January 1796, ''Hannibal'' and captured the privateer ''Alerte''. ''Alerte'' was armed with 14 guns and ''Sampson'' was the actual captor. Captain Robert Campbell assumed command in April 1798.〔 Captain E.T. Smith followed him in October, and remained in command until 1800, when Captain John Loring replaced him, only to pay ''Hannibal'' off later that year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Hannibal (1786)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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