[1] Minerva took her trial trip on March 14, 1896 from the National dock at East Boston.

7, helped rescue passengers on the Warren Line steamship Norseman, that went ashore off Marblehead, Massachusetts when it was headed for Boston.

[3] In November 1899, many transatlantic liners were used as supply ships during the South African wars, which caused some of the Boston pilot-boats to be placed out of commission.

[5] In 1901, pilot-boat Minerva was sold to Plymouth, Massachusetts parties to be used as a fishing vessel.

On October 12, 1901, on her first trip as a fishing boat, Captain Al Watson landed 20,000 pounds of haddock, cod, and hake.