HMS Montreal (1761)
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 Great Britain
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| Name: | HMS Montreal |
| Ordered: | 6 June 1759 |
| Builder: | Sheerness Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 26 April 1760 |
| Launched: | 15 September 1761 |
| Completed: | By 10 October 1761 |
| Captured: | By the French on 1 May 1779 |
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| Name: | Montréal |
| Acquired: | 1 May 1779 |
| Fate: | Destroyed on 18 December 1793 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | 32-gun Niger-class fifth-rate frigate |
| Tons burthen: | 681 71⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 35 ft 8 in (10.9 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 220 |
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HMS Montreal was a 32-gun Niger-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1761 and served in the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence. The French captured her in 1779 and she then served with them under the name Montréal. An Anglo-Spanish force destroyed her during the occupation of Toulon early in the French Revolutionary Wars.
Montreal was ordered from Sheerness Dockyard on 6 June 1759, one of an eleven ship class built to a design by Thomas Slade. She was laid down on 26 April 1760, launched on 15 September 1761, and was completed by 10 October 1761. She had been named Montreal on 28 October 1760, and was commissioned under her first commander, Captain William Howe, in September 1761, having cost £11,503.17.11d to build, including money spent fitting her out.
Montreal was first assigned to serve in the Mediterranean, which she sailed for in December 1761. She was paid off in July 1764 after the conclusion of the Seven Years' War. She was almost immediately recommissioned under Captain Keith Stewart, and returned to the Mediterranean in July that year. By 1766 Montreal was under the command of Captain Phillips Cosby, still in the Mediterranean, though she returned home in September 1767, bringing the body of the Duke of York, who had died in Monaco. She was paid off in early 1769 and returned to Portsmouth where she was examined as a model for future ship construction by the Kingdom of Sardinia. Master shipwright David Mearns prepared detailed sketches of the vessel, and these became the plans for the Sardinian frigate Carlo which was launched in 1770.
Montreal was recommissioned into the Royal Navy in December 1769 under Captain James Alms. She returned to the Mediterranean the following year, and was under the command of Captain Christopher Atkins from about September 1772. She paid off again in March 1773, and was surveyed at Chatham in April. A small to middling repair was carried out between July 1777 and February 1778, and she recommissioned in November 1777 under Captain Stair Douglas. She sailed to North America in April 1778, and was afterwards sent to the Mediterranean. While in North America Douglas was court-martialled for firing a gun into a small boat during some horseplay, killing a midshipman. He was acquitted on the grounds that he had not meant to kill. While in the Mediterranean Montreal formed part of Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Duff's squadron.
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