HMS ''Monarch'' was an 84-gun second rate

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of the

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, launched on 18 December 1832 at Chatham Dockyard. She was used as a target ship from 1862, and broken up in 1866.

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References

*Lavery, Brian (2003) ''The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850.'' Conway Maritime Press. .

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