''Minerve'' was a
''Téméraire''-class 74-gun ship of the line, later
razeed and commissioned as a
frigate
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The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and ...
. Started during the Empire, she was launched during the
Bourbon Restoration Bourbon Restoration may refer to:
France under the House of Bourbon:
* Bourbon Restoration in France (1814, after the French revolution and Napoleonic era, until 1830; interrupted by the Hundred Days in 1815)
Spain under the Spanish Bourbons:
* ...
, 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.
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 Bourbon Restoration may refer to:
France under the House of Bourbon:
* Bourbon Restoration in France (1814, after the French revolution and Napoleonic era, until 1830; interrupted by the Hundred Days in 1815)
Spain under the Spanish Bourbons:
* ...
. 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
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and six
Ottoman Navy vessels.
From 1848, ''Minerve'' was used as a gunnery training ship. She was hulked in 1853 and eventually broken up in 1874.
Citations
References
Frégates à voiles de 1er rang, la Flotte de Napoléon III
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Frigates of the French Navy
Ships built in France
1818 ships
Maritime incidents in October 1844