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French frigate Minerve (1831)

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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 & type32-gun frigate
Displacement3,069 tonneaux
Tons burthen1,537 port tonneaux
Length55.87 metres
Beam14.50 metres
Draught6.73 metres (6.41 after rebuild)
PropulsionSails
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Armament

Minerve was a 4th rank, 74-gun Téméraire-class ship of the line built for the French Navy during the 1810s. Not commissioned until 1818, the ship was razeed during the 1830s and recommissioned as a frigate.

Description

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Designed by Jacques-Noël Sané, the Téméraire-class ships had an length of 55.87 metres (183 ft 4 in), a beam of 14.46 metres (47 ft 5 in) and a depth of hold of 7.15 metres (23 ft 5 in). The ships displaced 3,069 tonneaux and had a mean draught of 7.15 metres (23 ft 5 in). They had a tonnage of 1,537 port tonneaux. Their crew numbered 705 officers and ratings during wartime. They were fitted with three masts and ship rigged.[1]

The muzzle-loading, smoothbore armament of the Téméraire class consisted of twenty-eight 36-pounder long guns on the lower gun deck and thirty 18-pounder long guns on the upper gun deck. After about 1807, the armament on the quarterdeck and forecastle varied widely between ships with differing numbers of 8-pounder long guns and 36-pounder carronades. The total number of guns varied between sixteen and twenty-eight. The 36-pounder obusiers formerly mounted on the poop deck (dunette) in older ships were removed as obsolete.[2]

Construction and career

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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 laid down on 13 January 1812 at the Arsenal de Rochefort, launched on 18 June 1818, and completed the following month.[3] After the July Revolution in 1830 she became Glorieux again. The next year, she was renamed Minerve.[4] The ship was razeed and converted into a 1st rank, 58-gun frigate from 1833 to October 1834.[3] On 10 October 1844, Minerve ran aground off Rhodes, Greece; she was refloated with the aid of the French Navy brig Alcibiade and six Ottoman Navy vessels.[5]

Citations

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  1. ^ Winfield & Roberts, p. 87
  2. ^ Winfield & Roberts, pp. 87–88, 97–98
  3. ^ a b Winfield & Roberts, p. 98
  4. ^ Roche, p. 311
  5. ^ "London". Hamshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle. No. 2355. Portsmouth. 23 November 1844.

References

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  • Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours [Dictionary of French Warships from Colbert to Today]. Vol. 1: 1671-1870. Roche. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
  • Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen S. (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786-1861: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2
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