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HMS Montagu (1779)

History
Royal Navy EnsignUK
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
Class and type: Alfred-class ship of the line
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

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

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. The Royal Navy took Jacobin into service as HMS Matilda.

Montague was broken up in 1818.



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