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Minerve Reef
Minerve may refer to: *Minerva, a Roman goddess *Minerve, Hérault, a village in France * French frigate ''Minerve'' (1782) * French frigate ''Minerve'' (1794) * French frigate ''Président'' (1804) or ''Minerve'' * French frigate ''Minerve'' (1805) * French frigate ''Minerve'' (1809) * French submarine ''Minerve'' (1934) * French submarine ''Minerve'' (S647) * Minerve (airline), a former French airline * ''La Minerve'', a giant ascension balloon envisioned by Étienne-Gaspard Robert Étienne-Gaspard Robert (15 June 1763 – 2 July 1837), often known by the stage name of "Robertson", was a prominent Liégeois (now part of Belgium) physicist, stage magician and influential developer of phantasmagoria. He was described by C ... in 1820 See also * Minerva (other) * French ship Minerve {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minerva
Minerva (; ett, Menrva) is the Roman goddess of wisdom, justice, law, victory, and the sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy. Minerva is not a patron of violence such as Mars, but of strategic war. From the second century BC onward, the Romans equated her with the Greek goddess Athena.''Larousse Desk Reference Encyclopedia'', Book People, Haydock, 1995, p. 215. Minerva is one of the three Roman deities in the Capitoline Triad, along with Jupiter and Juno. She was the virgin goddess of music, poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, weaving, and the crafts. She is often depicted with her sacred creature, an owl usually named as the "owl of Minerva", which symbolised her association with wisdom and knowledge as well as, less frequently, the snake and the olive tree. Minerva is commonly depicted as tall with an athletic and muscular build, as well as wearing armour and carrying a spear. As the most important Roman goddess, she is highly revered, honored, and respected. Marcus Teren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minerve, Hérault
Minerve (; oc, Menèrba) is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in southern France. It is the namesake of the Minervois wine region. History In 1210 a group of Cathars sought refuge in the village after the massacre at Béziers during the Albigensian Crusade. The village was besieged by Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester. The attacking army besieged the village for six weeks before it surrendered. Four catapults or trebuchets were set up around the ramparts, three to attack the village itself and the largest, known as Malvoisine or "bad neighbour", to destroy the town's well. With the town's only water supply cut off, the Commander of the 200-strong garrison, Viscount Guilhem of Minerve, gave in and negotiated a surrender in order to have the villagers and himself spared from death. However, 140 Cathars refused to give up their faith and convert, being burned to death at the stake on 22 July. Geography The village is situated on top of the gorge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Frigate Minerve (1782)
''Minerve'' was a 40-gun frigate of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. She operated in the Mediterranean during the French Revolutionary Wars. Her crew scuttled her at Saint-Florent to avoid capture when the British invaded Corsica in 1794, but the British managed to raise her and recommissioned her in the Royal Navy as the 38-gun fifth rate HMS ''St Fiorenzo'' (also ''San Fiorenzo''). She went on to serve under a number of the most distinguished naval commanders of her age, in theatres ranging from the English Channel to the East Indies. During this time she was active against enemy privateers, and on several occasions she engaged ships larger than herself, being rewarded with victory on each occasion. She captured the 40-gun and the 22-gun in 1797, the 36-gun in 1805, and the 40-gun in 1808. (These actions would earn the crew members involved clasps to the Naval General Service Medal.) After she became too old for frigate duties, the Admiralty had her converted fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Frigate Minerve (1794)
''Minerve'' was a 40-gun of the French Navy. The British captured her twice and the French recaptured her once. She therefore served under four names before being broken up in 1814: * ''Minerve'', 1794–1795 * HMS ''Minerve'', 1795–1803 * ''Canonnière'', 1803–1810 * HMS ''Confiance'', 1810–1814 French service as ''Minerve'' Her keel was laid in January 1792, and ''Minerve'' was launched in 1794. On 14 December, off the island of Ivica, she captured the collier ''Hannibal'', which was sailing from Liverpool to Naples. However, eleven days later, recaptured ''Hannibal'' off Toulon and sent her into Corsica. ''Minerve'' took part in combat off Noli. At the action of 24 June 1795, she and the 36-gun engaged the frigates and . ''Minerve'' surrendered to the British, ''Artémise'' having fled, and was commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS ''Minerve''. British service as HMS ''Minerve'' French Revolutionary Wars On 19 December 1796, ''Minerve'', under the command of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Frigate Président (1804)
''Président'' was a 40-gun frigate of the in the French Navy, built to an 1802 design by Pierre-Alexandre Forfait. She served with the French Navy from her completion in 1804 until late 1806 when the Royal Navy captured her. Thereafter, she served as HMS ''President''. In 1815 the Navy renamed her ''Piemontaise'', but then broke her up in December. French service Originally ordered under the name ''Minerve'', the frigate was renamed as ''Président'' on 24 December 1803. She took part in L'Hermite's expedition, which led to her capture. Before she was captured, on 6 January 1806 she helped capture the 16-gun sloop . Capture In June 1806, Captain Thomas George Shortland took command of . She was the flagship for a squadron under Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Louis. On 27 September, they fell in with ''Président'', Capt. Gallier Labrosse, south of the Isles of Scilly, near Belle Île. ''Président'' had been sailing with the ship of the line , frigate and corvette , bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Frigate Minerve (1805)
HMS ''Alceste'' was built at Rochefort in 1804 for the French Navy as ''Minerve'', an . In the spring of 1806, prior to her capture, she engaged , then under Lord Cochrane. During the duel she ran aground but Cochrane had to abort his attack when French reinforcements appeared. The British captured her in an action on 25 September 1806, and the Royal Navy took ''Minerve'' into service as ''Alceste'' in March 1807; ''Alceste'' then continued to serve throughout the Napoleonic Wars. On 29 November 1811, ''Alceste'' led a British squadron that captured a French military convoy carrying more than 200 cannon to Trieste in the Balkans. After this loss, Napoleon changed the direction of his planned eastward expansion in 1812 from the Balkans to Russia. The British historian James Henderson has suggested that the two events were linked, and may have changed the course of the war. In 1814, ''Alceste'' was converted to a troopship and used to transport British soldiers to North Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Frigate Minerve (1809)
The French frigate ''Minerve'' was originally launched in 1788 for the Portuguese Navy, where she served under the dual names of ''Nossa Senhora da Vitória'' and ''Minerva''. The French Navy captured and renamed her in November 1809, after which she played a notable role in the Indian Ocean campaign of 1809-1811, participating in the defeat of a Royal Navy frigate squadron at the Battle of Grand Port, but at the surrender of Mauritius in December 1810, the ship was handed over to the British, and seems to have been broken up soon afterwards. Design and construction The ''Nossa Senhora da Vitória'' was built at Lisbon by the shipbuilder Torcato Jose Clavina, and launched on 18 July 1788, or according to some other sources, 19 July in the same year. A standard modern work on the Portuguese navy of this period states the ship's hull length at 156 feet 9 inches, and her beam (the breadth of the hull) at a very wide 58 feet. Conversely, an equivalent work quoting French sources sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Submarine Minerve (1934)
''Minerve'' (Q185/P26) was the lead ship of the s of the French Navy. Commissioned in 1936, during World War II she served in the Free French Naval Forces, and was wrecked in late 1945. Ship history ''Minerve'' was built at the ''Arsenal de Cherbourg'', laid down on 17 August 1931, launched on 23 October 1934, and commissioned on 15 September 1936 into the ''2e Escadrille des Sous-Marins'' ("2nd Submarine Squadron") for service in the Atlantic. In August 1939 she was based at Oran, and was detached in November 1939 to carry out surveillance around the Canary Islands. Between February and May 1940 ''Minerve'' acted as an escort to seven convoys between Gibraltar and Liverpool. When the Germans invaded France on 10 May 1940 she was laid up undergoing maintenance, so on 18 June 1940 ''Minerve'', under the command of '' Lieutenant de Vaisseau'' Bazin left Brest towed by the tugboat ''Zeelew''. She was accompanied by her sister ship ''Junon'' towed by the ''Nessus'', and escorted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Submarine Minerve (S647)
''Minerve'' was a diesel–electric submarine in the French Navy, launched in 1961. The vessel was one of 11 of the . In January 1968, ''Minerve'' was lost with all hands in bad weather while returning to her home port of Toulon. ''Minerve'' sank two days after the submarine of the Israeli Navy disappeared in the eastern Mediterranean between Crete and Cyprus. ''Minerve'' was one of four submarines lost to unknown causes in 1968 along with the , the American , and Israeli submarine . After more than 50 years missing, the location of the wreck was discovered in 2019, south of Toulon. Description The ''Daphné'' class comprised second-class submarines, intermediate between the larger, ocean-going submarines of the ''Narval'' class and the small, specialised, antisubmarine vessels of the . The design was a development of the ''Aréthuse'' class, and were required to keep the low noise levels and high manoeuvrability of the smaller submarines, while also keeping a small crew an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minerve (airline)
Minerve was a French airline, headquartered in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, that operated from 1975 until it merged with AOM to form AOM French Airlines in 1992. History Minerve began operations in 1975 using Sud Aviation Caravelle aircraft on charter flights from Paris-Le Bourget airport. Permission was granted for charter flights to the United States in 1983 and those were operated first with Douglas DC-8 jets and later on with a Boeing 747-200 wide body jetliner. For charter flights to the Mediterranean and North Africa the Caravelles were used until replaced in 1987 by McDonnell Douglas MD-83. Minerve wanted to expand into North America and created a subsidiary in Canada called Minerve Canada, but that venture did not last long and it had a negative effect on the parent company. Other investments in Jet Alsace and Jet Fret created more financial burdens which led to the sale of 50% of the stock to the tour operator Club Méditerranée. To expand operations, three M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne-Gaspard Robert
Étienne-Gaspard Robert (15 June 1763 – 2 July 1837), often known by the stage name of "Robertson", was a prominent Liégeois (now part of Belgium) physicist, stage magician and influential developer of phantasmagoria. He was described by Charles Dickens as "an honourable and well-educated showman".Zeitler, William. E.G. Robertson". Accessed 29 July 2007. Alongside his pioneering work on projection techniques for his shows Robert was also a physics lecturer and a keen balloonist at a time of great development in aviation. Early work Born in Liège, Prince-Bishopric of Liège, Robert studied at Leuven and became a professor of physics specialising in optics. He was an avid painter and intended to move to France to pursue a career in art. He moved to Paris in the 1791 and maintained a living as a painter and draughtsman. While there he attended lectures in natural science at the Collège de France as well as those by Jacques Charles, a fellow scientist and important figure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minerva (other)
Minerva is the Roman goddess of crafts and wisdom. The name may also refer to: People * Minerva (Daum Agora user), a South Korean netizen famous for his economic predictions * Minerva Urecal (1894–1966), American film and television actress * Minerva, the stage name of Josephine Blatt (c. 1869 – 1923) * Minerva Hamilton Hoyt, an American woman famous for saving the deserts in California * Minerva Brace Norton (1837–1894), American educator and author * Minerva Dayton Bateham (1856–1885), American poet, hymn writer, temperance worker Geography Australia * Minerva, Queensland, a locality in the Central Highlands Pacific Ocean * Minerva Reefs, two submerged atolls between Tonga and New Zealand *Republic of Minerva, a self-declared South Pacific republic on the Minerva Reefs United States *Minerva, Kentucky, United States *Minerva, New York, United States *Minerva, Ohio, United States *Minerva, Oregon, United States * Minerva, West Virginia Land development * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
