Name HMS Montague Builder Sheerness Dockyard Launched 15 September 1757 Beam 13 m | Ordered 12 July 1750 Tons burthen 1245 (bm) Length 48 m | |
Fate Sunk as a breakwater, 1774 Class and type 1750 amendments 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line | ||
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.
On 31 January 1759 Montagu and Deptford chased a French privateer that Montague captured the next day. The privateer was Marquis de Martigny, of Granville. She had a crew of 104 men under the command of M. Le Crouse, and was armed with twenty 6-pounder guns.
Then on 15 February, Montagu captured the French privateer cutter Hardi Mendicant, of Dunkirk. Hardi Mendicant had a crew of 60 men under the command of M. Jean Meuleauer, and was armed with eight 6-pounder guns.
Montague served until 1774, when she was sunk to form part of a breakwater.