HMS Minerva (1805)

HMS Minerva off Finisterre Bay, 22 June 1806
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Minerva
Ordered	12 July 1804
Builder	Deptford Dockyard
Cost	£15,017
Laid down	August 1804
Launched	25 October 1805
Commissioned	November 1805
Fate	Broken up February 1815
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	32-gun fifth rate Thames-class frigate
Tons burthen	659 bm
Length	127 ft (39 m) (overall) 107 ft (33 m) (keel)
Beam	34 ft 0.5 in (10.376 m)
Depth of hold	11 ft 3.5 in (3.442 m)
Complement	220
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A wartime lack of building materials meant that Minerva and her class were built to the outdated 50-year-old design of the Richmond class, and were thus smaller than many contemporary frigates.^[2]