Seven ships of the

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

have been named HMS ''Monmouth''. Monmouth was the name of a castle and is now the name of a town in Wales; the name also recognises

James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1st Duke of Buccleuch, KG, PC (9 April 1649 – 15 July 1685) was a Dutch-born English nobleman and military officer. Originally called James Crofts or James Fitzroy, he was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlan ...

, the "Black Duke". * was an 8-gun

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launched in 1666 and sold in 1698. * was a 66-gun

third rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker). Years of experience proved that the third r ...

launched in 1667. She was rebuilt in 1700 and 1742, and was broken up in 1767. * was a 64-gun third rate launched in 1772. She became a

prison ship A prison ship, often more accurately described as a prison hulk, is a current or former seagoing vessel that has been modified to become a place of substantive detention for convicts, prisoners of war or civilian internees. While many nation ...

and named HMS ''Captivity'' in 1796, and was broken up in 1818. * was a 64-gun third rate, originally the Indiaman ''Belmont''. She was purchased on the stocks and launched in 1796. She became a sheer hulk in 1815 and was broken up in 1834. * HMS ''Monmouth'' was a 46-gun

fifth rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a fifth rate was the second-smallest class of warships in a hierarchical system of six " ratings" based on size and firepower. Rating The rating system in the Royal N ...

launched in 1828 as . She became a chapel hulk in 1859, was renamed HMS ''Monmouth'' in 1868, and sold in 1902. * was a

armoured cruiser The armored cruiser was a type of warship of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was designed like other types of cruisers to operate as a long-range, independent warship, capable of defeating any ship apart from a battleship and fast eno ...

launched in 1901 and sunk at the

Battle of Coronel The Battle of Coronel was a First World War Imperial German Navy victory over the Royal Navy on 1 November 1914, off the coast of central Chile near the city of Coronel. The East Asia Squadron (''Ostasiengeschwader'' or ''Kreuzergeschwader'') ...

in 1914. * is a

Type 23 frigate The Type 23 frigate or Duke class is a class of frigates built for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. The ships are named after British Dukes, thus leading to the class being commonly known as the Duke class. The first Type 23, , was commission ...

launched in 1991 and decommissioned in 2021.

Battle honours

Ships named ''Monmouth'' have earned the following

battle honours A battle honour is an award of a right by a government or sovereign to a military unit to emblazon the name of a battle or operation on its flags ("colours"), uniforms or other accessories where ornamentation is possible. In European military t ...

: * Sole Bay 1672 * Texel 1673 * Barfleur 1692 * Vigo 1702 * Gibraltar 1704 * Velez Malaga 1704 * Marbella 1705 * Finisterre 1747 * Ushant 1747 * ''Foudroyant'' 1758 * Belle Isle 1761 * Sadras 1782 * Providien 1782 * Negapatam 1782 * Trincomalee 1782 * Camperdown 1797 * Egypt 1801

References

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