HMS Monmouth (1772)
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| Name: | HMS Monmouth |
| Ordered: | 10 September 1767 |
| Builder: | Plymouth Dockyard |
| Laid down: | May 1768 |
| Launched: | 18 April 1772 |
| Renamed: | Captivity in 1796 |
| Reclassified: | Prison ship from 1796 |
| Fate: | Broken up in January 1818 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Intrepid-class ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: | 1,369 51⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 44 ft 4 in (13.5 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 19 feet (5.8 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
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HMS Monmouth was an Intrepid-class 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 18 April 1772 at Plymouth.
She was not immediately commissioned for service, but went on to serve during the American War of Independence in a number of theatres. She was initially in the Caribbean, where she fought at the Battle of Grenada, before returning to Britain to join a special expedition under Commodore George Johnstone, to capture the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope. The expedition was surprised by a French fleet at the Battle of Porto Praya and though Johnstone was able to go on and capture several Dutch merchants in the Battle of Saldanha Bay, he did not attempt to attack the Cape. Monmouth, under her Captain James Alms, was sent on with several other warships to reinforce the East Indies station, and she went on to fight in a number of actions under Sir Edward Hughes against French fleets under the Bailli de Suffren. She returned to Britain on the conclusion of the wars and saw no further active service. Renamed Captivity and used as a prison ship from 1796, she served out the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and was broken up in 1818.
Monmouth was ordered on 10 September 1767, one of the first batch of four ships of the Intrepid class, built to a design drawn up by Sir John Williams in 1765. The order was approved on 22 October 1767, and the name Monmouth assigned in November that year. She was laid down at Plymouth Dockyard in May 1768, under the supervision of Master Shipwright Israel Pownoll and launched from there on 18 April 1772. She was completed at the dockyard between October 1777 and 9 May 1778, after the outbreak of the American War of Independence. Expenditure on the ship by this stage came to £30,586.17.3d, with a further £7,426.15.1d. spent fitting her out.
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