HMS Montagu (1757)

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Career (Great Britain) Royal Navy Ensign
Name: HMS Montagu
Ordered: 12 July 1750
Builder: Sheerness Dockyard
Launched: 15 September 1757
Fate: Sunk as a breakwater, 1774
General characteristics [1]
Class and type: 1750 amendments 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen: 1,245 long tons (1,265.0 t)
Length: 157 ft 3 in (47.9 m) (gundeck)
Beam: 42 ft (12.8 m)
Depth of hold: 18 ft 6 in (5.6 m)
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Full rigged ship
Armament:

60 guns:

  • Gundeck: 24 × 24 pdrs
  • Upper gundeck: 26 × 12 pdrs
  • Quarterdeck: 8 × 6 pdrs
  • Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

HMS Montagu was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Sheerness Dockyard to the standard draught for 60-gun ships as specified by the 1745 Establishment, amended in 1750, and launched on 15 September 1757.[1]

Montagu served until 1774, when she was sunk to form part of a breakwater.[1]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p174.

References

  • Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.