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} |} ''Minerve'' was a 40-gun frigate of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. She operated in the Mediterranean during the French Revolutionary Wars. Her crew scuttled her at Saint-Florent to avoid capture when the British invaded Corsica in 1794, but the British managed to raise her and recommissioned her in the Royal Navy as the 38-gun fifth rate HMS ''St Fiorenzo'' (also ''San Fiorenzo''). She went on to serve under a number of the most distinguished naval commanders of her age, in theatres ranging from the English Channel to the East Indies. During this time she was active against enemy privateers, and on several occasions she engaged ships larger than herself, being rewarded with victory on each occasion. She captured the 40-gun ''Résistance'' and the 22-gun ''Constance'' in 1797, the 36-gun ''Psyché'' in 1805, and the 40-gun ''Piémontaise'' in 1808. (These actions would earn the crew members involved clasps to the Naval General Service Medal.) After she became to old for frigate duties, the Admiralty had her converted for successively less active roles. She initially became a troopship and then a receiving ship. Finally she was broken up in 1837 after a log period as a lazarette. ==French career== The French built ''Minerve'' at Toulon, laying her down on 10 February 1782 and launching her on 21 July 1782. She was the lead ship of her class. ''Minerve'' began her career in the Mediterranean, in particular operating in the Levant campaign from 1790 to 1791. In March 1793 she and ''Melpomène'' escorted from Toulon to Algiers two xebecs that the French had outfitted for the Dey. On ''Minerve’s'' return to Toulon her commander was arrested following an insurrection on board. On 18 February 1794, her commander scuttled her before the British under Sir David Dundas captured the town of San Fiorenzo (San Fiurenzu or Saint-Florent, Haute-Corse) in the Gulf of St. Florent in Corsica. (Other accounts suggest that gunfire from British shore batteries sank her.) The British found ''Minerve'' on 19 February 1794, and were able to refloat her.〔Collingwood, Harry, ''Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman During the French Revolutionary War'', 1884, p.181〕 They then took her into service as a 38-gun frigate under the name ''St Fiorenzo''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS St Fiorenzo (1794)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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