French frigate Minerve (1831)

Minerve in 1865
History
France
Name
  • 1831 Minerve
  • 1830 Glorieux
  • 1814 Duc de Berry
  • 1812 Glorieux
  • 1807 Couronne
NamesakeMinerva
Ordered21 August 1807
BuilderRochefort
Laid down13 January 1812
Launched18 June 1818
Completed
  • July 1818 as ship of the line
  • 16 October 1836 as frigate
Stricken12 December 1853
FateCondemned for demolition 1874
General characteristics
Class & type32-gun frigate
Displacement3,069 tonneaux
Tons burthen1,537 port tonneaux
Length55.87 metres
Beam14.50 metres
Draught6.73 metres (6.41 after rebuild)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Armament

Minerve was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line, later razeed and commissioned as a frigate. Started during the Empire, she was launched during the Bourbon Restoration, rebuilt during the reign of Louis-Philippe, and served as a gunnery school through the French Second Republic and the Second French Empire, only to be broken up shortly after the advent of the French Third Republic.

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