HMS Minotaur

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Minotaur after the minotaur, a creature in Greek mythology:

• HMS Minotaur (1793) 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.
• HMS Minotaur (1816) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1816, renamed Hermes in 1866 and broken up in 1869.
• HMS Minotaur (1863), ordered as Elephant but renamed Minotaur before being launched in 1863, was the lead ship of the Template:Sclass- of ironclad battleships. She was renamed Boscawen II in 1904, Ganges in 1906 and Ganges II in 1908, and broken up in 1922.
• HMS Minotaur (1906) 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:Sclass2- cruiser. She was renamed HMS Newcastle before her launch in 1936. She served in the Second World War and was broken up in 1959.
• 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 HMCS Ontario. She was decommissioned in 1958 and broken up in 1960.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.