HMS Hastings was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built in Calcutta for the Honourable East India Company, but purchased by the Royal Navy on 22 June 1819. Sailors and marines from the Hastings fought Chinese pirates at the Battle of Tonkin River in 1849. In 1855 she was fitted with screw propulsion. In 1857 the ship was deployed to Liverpool on coastal defence duties before being transferred to the Royal Naval Reserve to be used as a training ship. She was sold out of the navy in 1886. The Ship's figurehead is now on display at the Merseyside Maritime Museum.