HMS Montagu (1779)

Ship of the line of the Royal Navy

HMS Montague was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 August 1779 at Chatham Dockyard.^[1]

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 Jacobine. Jacobine was armed with twenty-four 12-pounder guns, and had a crew of 220 men; she was nine days out of Brest and had taken nothing.^[3] The Royal Navy took Jacobine into service as HMS Matilda.

Montague was driven ashore and damaged at Saint Lucia in the Great Hurricane of 1780^[4] but recovered.

The situation of the Montagu at 10 mins after 12 o'clock on the night of 13 February 1801 off Cape Ortagol

Captain Peter Heywood, 1772-1831 was appointed her commander in 1813.

In 1813 Captain Peter Heywood was appointed to command the Montagu in the North Sea and afterwards in the Mediterranean under Lord Exmouth, until July 1816. This was Heywood's last service.^[5]

Fate

Montague was broken up in 1818.^[1]

Citations

1. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p179.
2. Winfield, British Warships.
3. "No. 13751". The London Gazette. 10 February 1795. p. 147.
4. "The Marine List". New Lloyd's List (1228): 78 v. 29 December 1780.
5. "- National Maritime Museum".

References

• Lavery, Brian, The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850, 1983, ISBN 0-85177-252-8
• Lyon, David, The Sailing Navy List, All the Ships of the Royal Navy - Built, Purchased and Captured 1688-1860, pub Conway Maritime Press, 1993, ISBN 0-85177-617-5
• Winfield, Rif (2007) British Warships of the Age of Sail 1714-1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates, (Seaforth). ISBN 1-86176-295-X
• Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 978-1-86176-246-7.
• Original as built Plan National Maritime Museum

External links

• Media related to HMS Montagu (ship, 1779) at Wikimedia Commons