HMS Monmouth (1796)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Monmouth.

Original EIC Ship plan for the Monmouth 1796
History
Great Britain
NameHMS Monmouth
BuilderRandall & Co, Rotherhithe
Launched23 April 1796
Completed31 October 1796
Acquired14 July 1795
Honours and
awards
FateBroken up in May 1834
General characteristics [3]
Class and type64-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen1,439+51⁄94 (bm)
Length
  • 173 ft 1 in (52.8 m) (overall)
  • 144 ft 1+1⁄2 in (43.9 m) (keel)
Beam43 ft 4 in (13.2 m)
Depth of hold19 ft 8 in (6.0 m)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement491
Armament
  • Lower deck: 26 × 24-pounder guns
  • Upper deck: 26 × 18-pounder guns
  • QD: 10 × 9-pounder guns
  • Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns

HMS Monmouth was a 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 April 1796 at Rotherhithe. She had been designed and laid down for the East India Company, but the Navy purchased her after the start of the French Revolutionary War.[3] She served at the Battle of Camperdown and during the Napoleonic Wars. Hulked in 1815, she was broken up in 1834.

  1. ^ "No. 20939". The London Gazette. 26 January 1849. p. 238.
  2. ^ "No. 21077". The London Gazette. 15 March 1850. pp. 791–792.
  3. ^ a b Lavery, Ships of the Line, Vol. 1, p. 186.