HMS Cumberland was a 74-gun third-rate built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 19th century. Completed in 1803, she played a minor role in the Napoleonic Wars, participating in the Battle of Maguelone in 1809.
Cumberland measured on the gundeck and on the keel. She had a beam of , a depth of hold of and had a tonnage of 1,718 <small></small> tons burthen. The ship's draught was forward and aft at light load; fully loaded, her draught would be significantly deeper. The Repulse-class ships were armed with 74 muzzle-loading, smoothbore guns that consisted of twenty-eight 32-pounder guns on her lower gundeck and twenty-eight 18-pounder guns on her upper gundeck. Their forecastle mounted a pair of 18-pounder guns and two 32-pounder carronades. On their quarterdeck they carried two 18-pounders and a dozen 32-pounder carronades. Above the quarterdeck was their poop deck with half-a-dozen 18-pounder carronades. Their crew numbered 590 officers and ratings. The ships were fitted with three masts and ship-rigged.
Cumberland was the seventh ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy. She was ordered on 24 January 1805 from Thomas Pitcher as part of the second batch of five Repulse-class ships of the line designed by Sir William Rule, co-Surveyor of the Navy. The ship was laid down at his shipyard in Northfleet in August and was launched on 19 August 1807. She was commissioned by Captain Philip Wodehouse in October and was completed at Woolwich Dockyard that same month.
In October 1809, she took part in the Battle of Maguelone under Wodehouse.
On 12 March 1812, as the merchant ship was returning from Lima and Cadiz, the French privateer Amelia captured her. However, recaptured Ramoncita. The salvage money notice stated that Virago had been in company with , Cumberland, , and .
Cumberland was converted to serve as a prison ship by Chatham Dockyard from October 1829 to March 1830. She was renamed Fortitude on 15 November 1833. The ship was converted into a coal hulk from September 1845 to August 1848. She was sold to H. Castle & Son for ã2,020 in February 1870 to be broken up at Charlton.