Dates: 1793 - 1810
The ship fought at the Battle of the Nile in 1798, engaging the Aquilon with HMS Theseus and forcing her surrender, an operation that cost Minotaur 23 sailors dead and 64 wounded.
In May 1800, Minotaur served as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Lord Keith at the siege of Genoa.
She was present at the landings in Aboukir Bay during the invasion of Egypt in 1801 where she lost a total of three men killed, and six wounded.
In May 1803, whilst in company with His Majesty’s Ships Thunderer and Albion, she captured the French frigate Franchise.
Minotaur was present at the Battle of Trafalgar under Captain Charles John Moore Mansfield, where she was instrumental in capturing the Spanish ship Neptuno, although Neptuno’s crew recaptured recaptured her in the storm that followed the battle.
HMS Minotaur served as the flagship of Rear-Admiral William Essington at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1807.
Then on 25 July 17 boats from a British squadron under the command of Captain Charles Pater, consisting of Minotaur, Princess Caroline, Cerberus and Prometheus attacked a flotilla of four enemy gunboats and a brig off Aspö Head near Fredrickshamn in the Grand Duchy of Finland, Russia (present–day Hamina, Finland). Captain Forrest of Prometheus commanded the boats and succeeded in capturing gunboats Nos. 62, 65, and 66, and the transport brig No. 11. The action was sanguinary in that the British lost 19 men killed and 51 wounded, and the Russians lost 28 men killed and 59 wounded. Minotaur alone lost eight men killed and had 30 wounded, of whom four died of their wounds on the next day or so. In 1847 the Admiralty issued the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "25 JULY BOAT SERVICE 1809" to surviving claimants from the action. Cerberus then moved to the Mediterranean in 1810.
Forces Reunited Forum Posts involving HMS Minotaur
" From 1900,Francis Brooker served on - HMS Minotaur; Agincourt; Duke of Wellington; Terrible; Dido; Tamar; Argonaut; Firequeen; Vernon; Dominion; Duncan; Arethusa; Canterbury; Indomitable. Demobbed 3rd April 1919, died June 1929. Now, this is my very last shot - I have tried all possible ..."
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