HMS Minotaur

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Minotaur after the minotaur, a creature in Greek mythology:

• Template:HMS was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1793. She fought at the battles of the Nile and Trafalgar and was wrecked in 1810 off Texel.
• Template:HMS was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1816, renamed Hermes in 1866 and broken up in 1869.
• Template:HMS, ordered as Elephant but renamed Minotaur before being launched in 1863, was the lead ship of the Template:Sclass of ironclad armoured frigates. She was renamed Boscawen II in 1904, Ganges in 1906 and Ganges II in 1908, and broken up in 1922.
• Template:HMS was the lead ship of the Template:Sclass of armoured cruisers, launched in 1906 and broken up in 1920.
• HMS Minotaur was to have been a Template:Sclass light cruiser. However, this ship was cancelled and reordered as a new Template:Sclass2 light cruiser named Template:HMS.
• HMS Minotaur was the lead ship of the Template:Sclass of light cruisers, launched in 1943. She was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1944 and renamed Template:HMCS. She was decommissioned in 1958 and broken up in 1960.