[1] She was the first Royal Navy vessel to be assembled using iron as a part of her frame, rather than merely in bolts and nails.

Her shipwright, Sir Anthony Deane modified the vessel's plans to include U-shaped iron bars to secure the planking of the hull, despite stern disapproval from Admiralty's representative, the Clerk of the Acts Samuel Pepys.

His defence was personally reviewed by the King, Charles II, who upheld the use of iron.

However, the innovation was not repeated in other Royal Navy vessels until adoption of the 1719 Establishment nearly fifty years later.

Montagu died, although the ship's Captain, Richard Haddock, survived and went on to hold a distinguished career in the Navy.