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HBMS Montagu (1675)

Page history last edited by Cy 15 years, 3 months ago

Montagu, 62 Guns

 

Details
Nationality British
Previously Lyme
Launched 1675/00/00 B028
Shipyard Chatham DY B028
Rate Third Rate  
Type Ship of the Line  
Out Service 1698 B028
Fate Broken Up to Rebuild B028
Becomes Montagu

 

Dimensions
  Type Metric
Length of Gundeck 117' 0" Imperial Feet 35.66
Breadth 36' 6" Imperial Feet 11.13
Depth in Hold 15' 0" Imperial Feet 4.57
Draught Aft 17' 4" Imperial Feet 5.28
Burthen 829 Tons BM  

 

Armament
1689
Gun Deck 62 All Guns

 

Crew
Date Men Notes Source
1689 280 Establishment for War at home  
1689 352 Establishment for War abroad  

 

Flag Officers
Date From Date to Rank/Position Name Source
1696/04/13 Aboard Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir Cloudisley Shovell B051
Commanders
Date From Date to Rank/Position Name Source
1685 1685/09/27 Post Captain Sir John Ashby B051
1690 1691/01/02 Post Captain John Laton B029
1691 Unknown Post Captain Simon Fowkes B029
1694/06 Aboard Post Captain William Kiggings B029
1695 Unknown Post Captain Edward Littleton B029

 

Service Record
Date Notes Source
1691 Two or three cruisers under Captain Simon Foulks of the Montagu, 60, picked up nine large privateers, besides several small craft, off the Irish coast B029
1694/06 Captured a large 28-gun ship, laden with corn B029
1695/03 In March a small squadron under Captain Edward Littleton, of the Montagu, 60, captured, or contributed to the capture of, the greater part of a fleet of about thirty sail of French merchantmen in the Channel B029
1696/04/13 Bombarded Calais B051

 

Fleets
Fleet Title Commander Date From Date To Source
No Fleets Listed

 

Actions & Battles
Date Source
No Actions Listed

 

Notes on Ship
Death of Captain Laton The Royal Navy Vol II
On January 2nd 1690, Captain John Layton, of the Montague 60, was killed near Ushant in a petty encounter with a French twenty-four-gun privateer, which, after losing between forty and fifty men, was taken and carried into Plymouth

 

Sources
Id Link or Description Author
B028 Ships of the Royal Navy - Volume I J. J. Colledge
001 The Fighting Ship in the Royal Navy 897-1984 E. H. H. Archibald
B051 Biographia Navalis - Volume I John Charnock
B029 The Royal Navy Vol II William Laid Clowes
B051 Biographia Navalis - Volume II John Charnock

Last Updated :2009/01/01 at 23:40:36 by Cy

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