Minerva entered Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1795 with W. Noble, master, Danson & Co., owners, and trade Cork-Martinique.

[4] James Crow replaced Lynass as master and acquired a letter of marque on 8 July 1801.

1st voyage transporting enslaved people (1802–1803): Captain George Cannon sailed from Liverpool on 29 September 1802.

[6] 2nd voyage transporting enslaved people (1803–1804): Captain William Brown acquired a letter of marque on 7 October 1803.

[7] Minerva acquired captives in West Africa and arrived at Kingston, Jamaica on 4 April 1804.

[8] 3rd voyage transporting enslaved people (1804–1805): Captain Brown sailed from Liverpool on 4 December 1804.

[9] 4th voyage transporting enslaved people (1806–1807): Captain William Stowell sailed from Liverpool on 24 March 1806.

[10] 5th voyage transporting enslaved people (1807–1808): Captain James Scarisbrick sailed from Liverpool on 3 May 1807.

[11] Some 100 of the captives Minerva carried may have been survivors from the explosion that sank Ann in the Sierra Leone estuary in mid-December 1807.

The Register of Shipping (RS) for 1809 showed her with Hannah, master, Ackers & Co., owners, and trade Liverpool–Spain.