French frigate Minerve (1831)

	Minerve in 1865
History
France
Name	1831 Minerve; 1830 Glorieux; 1814 Duc de Berry; 1812 Glorieux; 1807 Couronne;
Namesake	Minerva
Ordered	21 August 1807
Builder	Rochefort
Laid down	13 January 1812
Launched	18 June 1818
Completed	July 1818 as ship of the line; 16 October 1836 as frigate;
Stricken	12 December 1853
Fate	Condemned for demolition 1874
General characteristics
Class and type	32-gun frigate
Length	55.87 metres
Beam	14.50 metres
Draught	6.73 metres (6.41 after rebuild)
Propulsion	Sails
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Armament	In 1817:; LD: 28 × 36-pounder long guns; UD: 30 × 18-pounder long guns; QD and Fc: 14 × 8-pounder long guns and 10 × 36-pounder carronades; In 1836:; LD: 26 × 36-pounder long guns and 2 × 22cm Paixhans guns; QD and Fc: 28 × 36-pounder carronades; As gunnery school:; LD: 24 × 30-pounder long guns, 3 × 22cm Paixhans guns; QD and Fc: 17 × 30-pounder carronades, 4 × 16cm howitzers;

Minerve was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line, later razeed and commissioned as a frigate. Started during the Empire, she was launched during the Bourbon Restoration, 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.

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