HMS Hibernia (1804)

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Career (UK)

Name:	HMS Hibernia
Ordered:	9 December 1790
Builder:	Plymouth dockyard
Laid down:	November 1797
Launched:	17 November 1804
Fate:	Sold out of the Service, 1902
General characteristics
Class and type:	110-gun first rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	2530 tons (2570.6 tonnes)
Length:	201 ft 2 in (61.3 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	53 ft 1 in (16.2 m)
Depth of hold:	22 ft 4 in (6.8 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	110 guns: Gundeck: 32 × 32 pdrs Middle gundeck: 32 × 24 pdrs Upper gundeck: 34 × 18 pdrs Quarterdeck: 12 × 32 pdr carronades Forecastle: 4 × 32 pdr carronades, 2 × 18 pdrs

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Hibernia.

HMS Hibernia was a 110-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Plymouth dockyard on 17 November 1804, and was the only ship built to her draught, designed by Sir John Henslow.

She was flagship of the British Mediterranean Fleet from 1816 until 1855, when she became the flagship for the Royal Navy's base at Malta and stationed in Grand Harbour. She remained in this role until she was sold in 1902.

Her figurehead is in the Maritime Museum, Vittoriosa, Malta.