HMS Minden
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The HMS Minden was a 3rd rank ship of the line of the Royal Navy , which belonged to the Ganges class . It was named after the Battle of Minden in 1759 in the Seven Years' War , in which British , Hanoverian and Prussian troops won a victory over the French .
The Minden was built in the Indian shipyard Jamshedji Bomanji Wadia in 1810. She was baptized on June 23, 1810 in Bombay and launched. She was the first Royal Navy ship to be built outside of the British Isles.
She served in Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812 between the United States of America and Great Britain . During this time Francis Scott Key is said to have been on board the Minden and wrote the first verse of the later American national anthem The Star-Spangled Banner . However, this claim is not clearly proven.
Furthermore, the Minden served in front of Algiers , Java and Australia .
At the end of her career, the Minden was relocated to Hong Kong as a hospital ship because a hospital ship previously stationed there had been destroyed by a typhoon. In 1857 the HMS Alligator became its successor. In honor of Minden , two streets in the Kowloon district were named after her: Minden Row and Minden Avenue .
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Coordinates: 22 ° 17 ′ 48.5 ″ N , 114 ° 10 ′ 28.5 ″ E