Many vessels have been named ''Minerva'' for the mythological figure

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: * was a merchantman launched in the East Indies. She traded there for more than 20 years before she made three voyages for the British

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(EIC). The first EIC voyage was from 1796 to 1798. In 1799 she transported

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s from

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while under charter to the EIC. From Australia she sailed to Bengal, and then back to Britain. She underwent repairs in 1802 and then traveled to

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and Bengal for the EIC. She was lost in 1805 or 1806 under circumstances that are currently unclear. * was launched as an

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. She made seven voyages for the British

(EIC), and one carrying rice from Bengal for the British government. She is last listed in 1805 but with stale data from 1802. * was launched at Galway. She traded widely, particularly as a

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. Between 1802 and 1804 she made two voyages as a

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. She then returned to trading with the West Indies. She was last listed in 1813. * was launched in 1795 at Lancaster as a

. In 1801 she was captured but immediately recaptured. Between 1802 and 1808 she made five voyages as a

. She was last listed in 1816. * was taken in prize from the Spanish, and may have been built in America. Between 1799 and 1807 she made six voyages as a

. She is last listed in 1813 but with data stale since her last slave voyage in 1807. * was launched at

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. Following trading with Central and South America, she made two voyages under charter to the British

(EIC) between 1811 and 1814. She also made four voyages transporting

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to Australia between 1818 and 1824, one to

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and three voyages to

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. She was broken up in 1826. * was the French letter of marque ''Minerve'', which the

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captured in September 1804.

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purchased her c.1805 for use as a

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. She was taken off the coast of Peru circa August 1805 after a crewman had killed her captain and her crew had mutinied. * was launched at Aberdeen. Her career is obscure. Circa 1823 she visited New South Wales and was condemned at Valparaiso in 1823 on her way home. * was launched in 1813 at Aberdeen. She traded across the Atlantic. She was wrecked in the St Lawrence on 13 May 1820. *, ship built in 1816. She made twelve whaling voyages from

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between 1831 and 1856 before being withdrawn in 1860. *, later known as Spliigen, was the first paddle steamer to operate on Lake Zurich in Switzerland. * ''Minerva'' (183? ship), schooner owned by ship owner George Elder of Kirkcaldy, Scotland, used to transport his son

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to South Australia in 1840. *, a cruise liner built in 1989 and named ''Minerva'' in 1996. *, a Glasgow and South Western Railway paddle steamer launched in 1893. She served with the

from 1916 and was sold into civilian service in

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in 1924. She was scrapped by 1928.

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