Minerva first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1799 with Cowley, master, Calvert & Co., owners, and trade London–Africa.

1st voyage transporting enslaved people (1799–1801): Captain Richard Coley sailed from London on 28 July 1799.

[3] On 6 January Lloyd's List reported that Minerva, Cooley, master, had parted from her anchors at pithead and put into Portsmouth.

[5] Coley started acquiring captives on 29 January 1803, stopping at Elmina, Cape Coast Castle, and Accra.

[11] 5th voyage transporting enslaved people (1805–1806): Captain James Boswell left London on 5 July 1805.

He acquired Minerva's captives at Cape Coast Castle and Accra, and arrived at Kingston, Jamaica, on 1 August.

(The last legal voyage was that of Kitty's Amelia, which left on 27 July, but with a clearance dated before the deadline.)

There is no record in Lloyd's List's ship arrival and departure data of Minerva's return to England.