Earlier this month, I wrote about the current USS Montgomery (LCS-8). I found out there were also USS Montgomerys in the War of 1812, Civil War, Spanish-American War and World War II.
I will write about them in my blogs.
From Wikipedia.
USS MONTGOMERY (1776)
Was a three-masted, wooden sailing frigate and one of the first 13 ships authorized by the Continental Congress on 13 December 1775.
She was built by Lancaster Burling at Poughkeepsie, New York, and launched late in October 1776. But because the British captured New York City after the Battle of Brooklyn, the Hudson River was closed. Because of this, the ship was never completed and later destroyed.
It was probably built to the standards of Joshua Humphry's design for a 24-gun frigate mounting twenty-four 9-pounder guns.
It was named in honor of fallen general Richard Montgomery, who had been a British soldier but sided with the Americans and was appointed a brigadier general by George Washington he was later killed in a failed assault on Quebec, 31 December 1775.
To prevent capture by the British, the USS Montgomery was burned on 6 October 1777.
--Cooter
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