![]() HMS Minerva off Finisterre Bay, 22 June 1806
| |
History | |
---|---|
![]() | |
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 |
|
Beam | 34 ft 0.5 in (10.376 m) |
Depth of hold | 11 ft 3.5 in (3.442 m) |
Complement | 220 |
Armament |
|
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A wartime lack of building materials meant that Minerva and her class were built to the outdated 50-year-old design of the Richmond class, and were thus smaller than many contemporary frigates.[2]