HMS Waterloo was an 80-gun third-rate ship of the line, launched on 16 October 1818 at Portsmouth.

She had originally been ordered as HMS Talavera, but was renamed on the stocks after the Battle of Waterloo.

She served as flagship to Rear Admiral Sir Charles Paget from 1836 to 1838.

[3] Her only meaningful military activity was the bombardment of Sebastopol in June 1854 during the Crimean War.

[4] She was placed on harbour service as a receiving ship in Portsmouth in 1856, and was sold in 1892 to J.