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 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 brigAlcibiade and six Ottoman Navy vessels.[1]
From 1848, Minerve was used as a gunnery training ship. She was hulked in 1853 and eventually broken up in 1874.
Citationsedit
^"London". Hamshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle. No. 2355. Portsmouth. 23 November 1844.
Referencesedit
Frégates à voiles de 1er rang 26 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine, la Flotte de Napoléon III
Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. ISBN978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.
January 01, 1970
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