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| Name | Hercules (1815) | Explanation | |
| Type | Third rate | ||
| Launched | 5 September 1815 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 1750 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 74 | ||
| Fate | 1865 | ||
| Class | Armada | ||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | 1853 h.s. | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 1836 - 1837 | Commanded by Captain Maurice Frederick Fitzhardinghe Berkeley, home station | ||
| 16 August 1837 - January 1839 | Commanded by Captain John Toup Nicolas, Lisbon | ||
| 29 January 1839 - 23 November 1839 | Commanded by Captain Edward Barnard, conveying troops from the West Indies to North America, and then to Lisbon | ||
| (January 1840) | Out of commission at Sheerness | ||
| 7 September 1852 | Commanded by Commander Benjamin Baynton, particular service | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Th 14 September 1848 | Extract of a letter from the Cape of Good Hope, dated July 1: "Since my last I have to notice the arrival of the Hercules, 74. Master Commander Fulton, for Bombay, to load teak for the dockyards in England, 31st of May; the Arab, 12, Commander Morris, on the 11th of June, from Mozambique; the Havannah, 22, Captain Erskine, 21st of June; and the Dee steam trooper, Master Commander Filmer, on the 23d. The Havannah beat the Dee three days in the voyage from Madeira. Mrs. Stokes, wife of Captain J. L. Stokes, of the Acheron steam-sloop, died here on the 10th ult., and the Acheron sailed for New Zealand on the 15th" | ||
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