PS Minerva was a 306 GRT passenger paddle steamer that J&G Thomson launched in 1893 for the Glasgow and South Western Railway (G&SWR).

She served with the Royal Navy from 1916 and was sold into civilian service in Turkey in 1924.

[1] She had two sister ships with slight detail differences: PS Glen Rosa, which was also built for the G&SWR, and PS Slieve Donard, which was built for the Belfast and County Down Railway.

She worked various G&SWR ferry routes, commonly to Rothesay and the Kyles, and in winter to the Isle of Arran.

[2] In June 1916 the Admiralty requisitioned her for the Royal Navy as an auxiliary patrol vessel.