| Name: | MINERVA |
| Type: | Frigate |
| Keel: | 25/07/1963 |
| Launched: | 19/12/1964 |
| Completed: | 14/05/1966 |
| Builder: | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd |
| Yard: | High Walker |
| Yard Number: | 179 |
| Dimensions: | 2450disp to 2860disp, 360.0 x 41.0 x 18.0(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x steam turbines, English Electric type, 30000hp |
| Engines by: | Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd, Glasgow |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 30.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 1 x 2 x 4.5ins, 2 x 40mm guns; Limbo anti-submarine mortar; |
| 1 x Wasp helicopter | |
| History: | |
| 14/05/1966 | British Royal Navy |
| 31/01/1994 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Member of the 26 ship Leander class |
| Allocated pennant number F45 | |
| 1979: 4.5ins guns replaced by 4 x Exocet missiles | |
| 31/01/1994: Arrived for breaking up at Alang |
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