HMS Minotaur was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 April 1816 at Chatham Dockyard.She was never commissioned for sea service; on completion of construction the new vessel was immediately placed in reserve at Sheerness Dockyard until 1842 when she was fitted as a receiving ship for naval conscripts.By 1859 she had become a guardship in Sheerness harbour, and in 1861 was converted into a floating lazarette for passengers from merchant vessels who were suspected by the Customs Service of bringing in disease.Five years later she was sailed to Gravesend to serve as a hospital for cholera patients.This article about a ship of the line of the United Kingdom is a stub.
The receiving ship
Minotaur
on moorings in front of Blockhouse Point,
Sheerness
and the '1 o'clock boat' (steamer) in the foreground, 25 January 1851
