Name Minerve Builder Rochefort Completed 16 October 1836 Construction started 1805 Length 56 m | Namesake Minerva Laid down 1805 Struck 12 December1853 Launched 18 June 1818 | |
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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-Philip, 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.
Career
Started in 1805, 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. At 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 brefore becoming the flagship of the Middle East naval station in 1844.
From 1848, Minerve was used as a gunnery training ship. She was hulked in 1853 and eventually broken up in 1874.