HMS Minorca

Several vessels of the British Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Minorca, for the island of Menorca, which the British called "Minorca":

HMS Minorca (1740) was a lighter launched at Deptford in 1740 that the French captured in 1756.
HMS Minorca (1779) was a xebec-rigged vessel that the Royal Navy had built at Port Mahon, Minorca in 1779. She participated in one major engagement in 1780. The Navy scuttled her in 1781.
HMS Minorca was the French brig Alerte (1787), which the Royal Navy captured in 1799 and took into service, renaming her Minorca; the Navy sold her in 1802.
HMS Minorca (1805) was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop. She served during the Napoleonic Wars in the Mediterranean and was sold in 1814 after an uneventful career.

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