HMS Montagu was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by Edward Allin[2] and built at Sheerness Dockyard to the standard draught for 60-gun ships as specified by the 1745 Establishment, amended in 1750, and launched on 15 September 1757.

She had a crew of 104 men under the command of M. Le Crouse, and was armed with twenty 6-pounder guns.

[3] Then on 15 February, Montagu captured the French privateer cutter Hardi Mendicant, of Dunkirk.

Hardi Mendicant had a crew of 60 men under the command of M. Jean Meuleauer, and was armed with eight 6-pounder guns.

The expedition to Dominica which landed on 6 June 1761 was led by Colonel Andrew Rollo, the Brigadier-General in America who was in command of 26,000 troops, and Commodore James Douglas, Commander-in-Chief at the Leeward Islands, who commanded four ships of the line, the Montague, Sutherland, Belliqueux, his flag ship the Dublin, and two frigates.