HMS Hibernia explained

Four ships and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hibernia after the Latin name of Ireland:

• HMS Hibernia was to have been a 74-gun third rate. She was renamed in 1763 and launched in 1765.
• was a 110-gun first rate launched in 1804. She became the base flagship at Malta in 1855, and was broken up in 1902.
• HMS Hibernia was a base ship, launched in 1863 as the ironclad frigate . She became a base ship under the name HMS Hibernia in 1902, was renamed HMS Egmont in 1904, HMS Egremont in 1916 and HMS Pembroke in 1919, before being sold for scrapping in 1923.
• was a pre-dreadnought battleship launched in 1905 and sold in 1921.
• is the Northern Irish base of the Royal Naval Reserve, commissioning in Lisburn in 2010.