Minerve was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line, later razeed and commissioned as a frigate.

Ordered in 1807, the ship was initially to be named Couronne, but was renamed Glorieux in 1812, and Duc de Berry in 1814 at the Bourbon Restoration.

Launched for the second time in 1833, Minerve served a flagship of the naval station off Brazil.

In 1841, she cruised off Madagascar before becoming the flagship of the Middle East naval station in 1844.

On 10 October 1844, she ran aground off Rhodes, Greece; she was refloated with the aid of the French Navy brig Alcibiade and six Ottoman Navy vessels.