HMS Montagu (1779)

HMS Montague was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 August 1779 at Chatham Dockyard.[1]

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Montague.

HMS Montagu forcing the enemy to move from Bertheaume Bay, 22 August 1800
History
UK
Name: HMS Montague
Ordered: 16 July 1774
Builder: Chatham Dockyard
Laid down: 30 January 1775
Launched: 28 August 1779
Fate: Broken up, 1818
Notes:
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: Alfred-class ship of the line[2]
Tons burthen: 1631 (bm)
Length: 169 ft (51.5 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 47 ft 2 in (14.4 m)
Depth of hold: 20 ft (6 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship
Armament:
  • Gundeck: 28 × 32-pounder guns
  • Upper gundeck: 28 × 18-pounder guns
  • QD: 14 × 9-pounder guns
  • Fc: 4 × 9-pounder guns

Montague took part in the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1780 and the Glorious First of June in 1794.

On 30 October 1794 Montague and Ganges captured the French corvette Jacobine. Jacobine was armed with twenty-four 12-pounder guns, and had a crew of 220 men; she was nine days out of Brest and taken nothing.[3] The Royal Navy took Jacobin into service as HMS Matilda.

She was driven ashore and damaged at Saint Lucia in the Great Hurricane of 1780[4] but recovered.

The situation of the Montagu at 10 mins after 12 o'clock on the night of 13 February 1801 off Cape Ortagol
Captain Peter Heywood, 1772-1831 was appointed her commander in 1813.

In 1813 Captain Peter Heywood was appointed to command the Montagu in the North Sea and afterwards in the Mediterranean under Lord Exmouth, until July 1816. This was Heywood's last service.[5]

Fate

Montague was broken up in 1818.[1]

Citations and references
Citations
  1. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p179.
  2. Winfield, British Warships.
  3. "No. 13751". The London Gazette. 10 February 1795. p. 147.
  4. "The Marine List". New Lloyd's List (1228). 29 December 1780.
  5. https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14239.html
References
  • Lavery, Brian, The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850, 1983, ISBN 0-85177-252-8
  • Lyon, David, The Sailing Navy List, All the Ships of the Royal Navy - Built, Purchased and Captured 1688-1860, pub Conway Maritime Press, 1993, ISBN 0-85177-617-5
  • Winfield, Rif (2007) British Warships of the Age of Sail 1714-1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates, (Seaforth). ISBN 1-86176-295-X
  • Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1-86176-246-1.
  • Original as built Plan National Maritime Museum


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