Capture of "LA Minerve," June 24, 1795 The frigate Minerve (of 42 guns, eighteen pounders on the main deck, which was now to serve Nelson so well in his daring expeditition for the evacuation of Elba, was a new French ship, and remarkably fast. She was captured by Lowescroft, Nelson's old ship, with some assisatance from the Dido, in the Mediterranean, on the date mentioned