HMS Minerva (1805)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Minerva.

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 [1]
Class and 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A wartime lack of building materials meant that Minerva and her class were built to the outdated 50-year-old design of the Richmond class, and were thus smaller than many contemporary frigates.[2]

  1. ^ Winfield, British Warships, p. 497.
  2. ^ Winfield, British Warships, p. 494.