HMS Montagu (1654)

History
Great Britain
Name:	Lyme
Builder:	Tippetts, Portsmouth
Launched:	1654
Renamed:	HMS Montagu, 1660
Fate:	Broken up, 1749
General characteristics as built[1]
Class & type:	Speaker-class frigate
Tons burthen:	764 bm
Length:	117 ft (35.7 m) (keel)
Beam:	35 ft 2 in (10.7 m)
Depth of hold:	15 ft (4.6 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	52 guns (at launch); 62 guns (1677)
General characteristics after 1698 rebuild[2]
Class & type:	60-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	905 bm
Length:	143 ft 10 in (43.8 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	37 ft 8 in (11.5 m)
Depth of hold:	15 ft 4 in (4.7 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	60 guns of various weights of shot
General characteristics after 1716 rebuild[3]
Class & type:	1706 Establishment 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line
Tons burthen:	920 bm
Length:	144 ft (43.9 m) (gundeck)
Beam:	38 ft (11.6 m)
Depth of hold:	15 ft 8 in (4.8 m)
Propulsion:	Sails
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Armament:	60 guns: Gundeck: 24 × 24 pdrs Upper gundeck: 26 × 9 pdrs Quarterdeck: 8 × 6 pdrs Forecastle: 2 × 6 pdrs

Lyme was a 52-gun third rate Speaker-class frigate built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England at Portsmouth, and launched in 1654.^[1]

After the Restoration in 1660 she was renamed HMS Montagu. She was widened in 1675^[1] and underwent her first rebuild in 1698 at Woolwich Dockyard as a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line.^[2] Her second rebuild took place at Portsmouth Dockyard, from where she was relaunched on 26 July 1716 as a 60-gun fourth rate to the 1706 Establishment.^[3]

The Montagu was broken up in 1749.^[3]

Notes

1. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p159.
2. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p167.
3. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p168.

References

• 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.