Name HMS Montague Builder Chatham Dockyard Fate Broken up, 1818 Launched 28 August 1779 | Ordered 16 July 1774 Laid down 30 January 1775 Construction started 30 January 1775 | |
Notes Participated in
Battle of Cape St Vincent
Glorious First of June | ||
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 Jacobin. Jacobin was armed with twenty-four 12-pounder guns, and had a crew of 223 men; she was nine days out of Brest and taken nothing. The Royal Navy took Jacobin into service as HMS Matilda.
Fate
Montague was broken up in 1818.
References
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