HMS Montague was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 28 August 1779 at Chatham Dockyard.

[1] Montague took part in the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1780 and the Glorious First of June in 1794.

Jacobine was armed with twenty-four 12-pounder guns, and had a crew of 220 men; she was nine days out of Brest and had taken nothing.

Montague was driven ashore and damaged at Saint Lucia in the Great Hurricane of 1780[4] but recovered.

In 1813 Captain Peter Heywood was appointed to command the Montagu in the North Sea and afterwards in the Mediterranean under Lord Exmouth, until July 1816.