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HMS Hermes 7

The very impressive looking third rate 74 gun ship was launched on the 15th April 1816 as HMS Minotaur and became HMS Hermes in 1866 


Despite a 53 year lifespan she was never commissioned for sea service.  Instead she was put in to reserve at Sheerness until 1842 then used as a receiving ship for Naval conscripts.  1st of April 1859 saw her as a guardship in Sheerness harbour commanded by Captain Edward Pellew Halstead, and in 1861 she was converted into a holding ship for passengers from merchant vessels suspected of bringing in disease (cholera). 


5 years later she was sailed to Gravesend to serve as a hospital ship for cholera when in July 1866 she became HMS Hermes before being broken up 3 years later at Sheerness dockyard.

HMS Minotaur on moorings, Sheerness, and the '1 o'clock boat' in the foreground, 25 January 1851 

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