French frigate Minerve (1831)

Minerve was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line, later razeed and commissioned as a frigate. Started during the Empire, she was launched during the Bourbon Restoration, rebuilt during the reign of Louis-Philippe, and served as a gunnery school through the French Second Republic and the Second French Empire, only to be broken up shortly after the advent of the French Third Republic.

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Couronne and French ship Minerve.

Minerve in 1865
History
French Navy EnsignFrance
Name
  • 1831 Minerve
  • 1830 Glorieux
  • 1814 Duc de Berry
  • 1812 Glorieux
  • 1807 Couronne
NamesakeMinerva
Ordered21 August 1807
BuilderRochefort
Laid down13 January 1812
Launched18 June 1818
Completed
  • July 1818 as ship of the line
  • 16 October 1836 as frigate
Stricken12 December 1853
FateCondemned for demolition 1874
General characteristics
Class and type32-gun frigate
Length55.87 metres
Beam14.50 metres
Draught6.73 metres (6.41 after rebuild)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Armament

Career

Ordered in 1807, the ship was initially to be named Couronne, but was renamed Glorieux in 1812, and Duc de Berry in 1814 at the Bourbon Restoration. She was eventually launched in 1818. In 1830 after the July Revolution she became Glorieux again. The next year, she was renamed Minerve and razeed to a frigate.

Launched for the second time in 1833, Minerve served a flagship of the naval station off Brazil. In 1841, she cruised off Madagascar before becoming the flagship of the Middle East naval station in 1844. On 10 October 1844, she ran aground off Rhodes, Greece; she was refloated with the aid of the French Navy brig Alcibiade and six Ottoman Navy vessels.[1]

From 1848, Minerve was used as a gunnery training ship. She was hulked in 1853 and eventually broken up in 1874.

Citations
  1. "London". Hamshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle. No. 2355. Portsmouth. 23 November 1844.

References
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