Minerve heading for the open sea at the mouth of the Tagus in 1797, by Thomas Buttersworth
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History | |
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France | |
Name | Minerve |
Builder | Toulon |
Laid down | January 1792 |
Launched | 5 September 1794 |
Captured | 23 June 1795 by the Royal Navy |
Great Britain | |
Name | Minerve |
Acquired | 23 June 1795 |
Captured | 3 July 1803 by the French Navy |
France | |
Name | Canonnière |
Acquired | 3 July 1803 |
Renamed |
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Captured | 3 February 1810 by the Royal Navy |
United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Confiance |
Acquired | 3 February 1810 |
Fate | Struck from navy lists by 1814 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Minerve-class frigate |
Tons burthen | 1,10179⁄94 (bm)[1] |
Length | 48.4 m (158 ft 10 in) |
Beam | 12.2 m (40 ft 0 in) |
Draught | 5.6 m (18 ft 4 in) |
Armament |
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Minerve was a 40-gun Minerve-class frigate of the French Navy. The British captured her twice and the French recaptured her once. She therefore served under four names before being broken up in 1814: