HMS Minotaur

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Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Minotaur after the minotaur, a creature in Greek mythology:

• {{HMS|Minotaur|1793}} was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1793. She fought at the battles of the Nile and Trafalgar and was wrecked in 1810 off Texel.
• {{HMS|Minotaur|1816}} was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1816, renamed Hermes in 1866 and broken up in 1869.
• {{HMS|Minotaur|1863}}, ordered as Elephant but renamed Minotaur before being launched in 1863, was the lead ship of the {{sclass|Minotaur|ironclad|4}} of ironclad armoured frigates. She was renamed Boscawen II in 1904, Ganges in 1906 and Ganges II in 1908, and broken up in 1922.
• {{HMS|Minotaur|1906}} was the lead ship of the {{sclass|Minotaur|cruiser (1906)|4}} of armoured cruisers, launched in 1906 and broken up in 1920.
• HMS Minotaur was to have been a {{sclass|Arethusa|cruiser|0||1934}} light cruiser. However, this ship was cancelled and reordered as a new {{sclass2|Town|cruiser (1936)|0}} light cruiser named {{HMS|Newcastle|C76|6}}.
• HMS Minotaur was the lead ship of the {{sclass|Minotaur|cruiser (1943)|4}} of light cruisers, launched in 1943. She was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1944 and renamed {{HMCS|Ontario|C53|6}}. She was decommissioned in 1958 and broken up in 1960.