HMS Minerva (1805)

HMS Minerva off Finisterre Bay, 22 June 1806
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Minerva
Ordered12 July 1804
BuilderDeptford Dockyard
Cost£15,017
Laid downAugust 1804
Launched25 October 1805
CommissionedNovember 1805
FateBroken up February 1815
General characteristics
Class & type32-gun fifth rate Thames-class frigate
Tons burthen659 bm
Length
  • 127 ft (39 m) (overall)
  • 107 ft (33 m) (keel)
Beam34 ft 0.5 in (10.376 m)
Depth of hold11 ft 3.5 in (3.442 m)
Complement220
Armament
  • Upper deck: 26 × 12-pounder guns
  • QD: 8 × 24-pounder carronades
  • Fc: 4 × 24-pounder carronades

HMS Minerva was a 32-gun fifth-rate Thames-class frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1805 at Deptford. Her namesake was the Roman goddess Minerva.

A wartime lack of building materials meant that Minerva and her class were built to the outdated 50-year-old design of the Richmond class, and were thus smaller than many contemporary frigates.

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