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HMS Montagu (1757)

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Name
  
HMS Montague

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.

References

HMS Montagu (1757) Wikipedia


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