HMS Monmouth (1796)

Original EIC Ship plan for the Monmouth 1796
History
Great Britain
Name	HMS Monmouth
Builder	Randall & Co, Rotherhithe
Launched	23 April 1796
Completed	31 October 1796
Acquired	14 July 1795
Honours and awards	Naval General Service Medal with clasps: "Camperdown"[1] "Egypt"[2]
Fate	Broken up in May 1834
General characteristics [3]
Class and type	64-gun third rate ship of the line
Tons burthen	1,439+51⁄94 (bm)
Length	173 ft 1 in (52.8 m) (overall) 144 ft 1+1⁄2 in (43.9 m) (keel)
Beam	43 ft 4 in (13.2 m)
Depth of hold	19 ft 8 in (6.0 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	491
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.