HMS Minden
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| Name: | HMS Minden |
| Ordered: | 9 July 1801 |
| Builder: | Bombay Dockyard, India |
| Launched: | 19 June 1810 |
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| Fate: | Sold for breaking up, 1861 |
| Notes: | Hulked, 1842 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Ganges-class ship of the line |
| Tons burthen: | 1721 bm |
| Length: | 169 ft 6 in (51.66 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam: | 47 ft 8 1⁄2 in (14.5 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 20 ft 3 in (6.17 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
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HMS Minden was a Royal Navy 74-gun Ganges-class third-rate ship of the line, launched on 19 June 1810. She was named after the German town Minden and the Battle of Minden of 1759, a decisive victory of British and Prussian forces over France in the Seven Years' War. The town is about 75 km away from Hanover, from where the House of Hanover comes—the dynasty which ruled the United Kingdom from 1714 until 1901.
Lovji Nusserwanjee Wadia built Minden in 1810. She was launched from the Duncan Docks in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, and was built of teak.
Minden sailed from Bombay on 8 February 1811 on her first cruise, under the command of Edward Wallis Hoare, and manned by the crew of the Russell. In March she sailed from Madras to take part in the invasion of Java. On 29 July two of her boats, under the command of Lieutenant Edmund Lyons, with only 35 officers and men aboard, attacked and captured the fort covering the harbour of Marrack, to the westward of Batavia. The Naval General Service Medal with the clasp "30 July Boat Service 1811" was issued to survivors of this action in 1848. The Dutch and French forces in Java surrendered in September. Minden then sailed for the UK and escorted convoys to the East Indies, the Cape of Good Hope, South America, and the coast of Africa.
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