HMS Monmouth (1667)

HMS Monmouth (1667)

HMS "Monmouth" was a 66-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, and was the second ship to be named for the town of Monmouth in Wales. She served from 1667 to 1767, winning ten battle honours over a century of active service. She was rebuilt a total of three times during her career—each time effectively becoming a completely new ship.

She was built at Chatham Dockyard in 1667 by Phineas Pett II—seeing action whilst still in the Thames, during the Raid on the Medway, and fought at the Battle of Solebay in 1672, shortly followed by the Battle of Texel in 1673. She fought at the Battle of Barfleur in 1692. "Monmouth" underwent her first rebuild at Woolwich Dockyard in 1700, remaining a 66-gun ship. She fought at the Battle of Vigo Bay in 1702, and at the Siege of Gibraltar and Velez Malaga in 1704.

Her second rebuild was carried out at Portsmouth Dockyard, where she was increased to a 70-gun ship built according to the 1706 Establishment, and relaunched on 3 June 1718. On 7 September 1739 "Monmouth" was ordered to be taken to pieces and rebuilt for what was to be the final time at Deptford according to the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment. She was relaunched on 6 September 1742.

In 1747, she fought at Finisterre and Ushant, and in 1758 she captured the larger French ship "Foudroyant".Capture of "Foudroyant", NMM.] "Monmouth" was also present at Belle Île in 1761.

After a hundred years of honourable service, she was finally broken up in 1767; a newspaper of the time gave her epitaph as '"There was no ship she ever chased that she did not overtake: there was no enemy she ever fought that she did not capture".'Fact|date=December 2007

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*Lavery, Brian (2003) "The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850." Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
* [http://www.nmm.ac.uk/mag/pages/mnuExplore/PaintingDetail.cfm?letter=C&ID=BHC0383 The capture of the "Foudroyant" by HMS "Monmouth"] . National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 1 December 2007.

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