Minos the bull to Poseidon, but then decided to substitute a different bull. In rage, Poseidon cursed Pasiphaë, Minos' wife, with a mad passion for the bull. Daedalus built her a wooden cow, which she hid inside. The bull mated with the wooden cow and Pasiphaë was impregnated by the bull, giving birth to a horrible monster, again named Asterius, the Minotaur, half man half bull. Daedalus then built a complicated "chamber that with its tangled windings perplexed the outward way" called the Labyrinth, and Minos put the Minotaur in it. To make sure no one would ever know the secret
HMS Daedalus (1780) and the privateer "Légère" on 11 December 1782. Pringle escorted a convoy to Newfoundland during the year, and in 1783 was engaged in patrolling the Shetland fisheries. The "Daedalus" was paid off in July 1784, and in 1790 underwent a Great Repair at Rotherhithe, that lasted until 1793. Captain Charles Henry Knowles recommissioned the "Daedalus" in March 1793, and sailed her to the Halifax station. Knowles was replaced by Captain Thomas Williams in September 1794, during which time "Daedalus" was part of Admiral Adam Duncan's fleet. In September 1795, Captain George Countess took over, and "Daedalus" sailed to the West