HMS Herald

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).

Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Herald:

  • The first Herald was a 20-gun sixth-rate launched in 1806 and broken up in 1817.
  • The second Herald was a 500-ton, 28-gun sixth-rate, launched as Termagant in 1822 and renamed in 1824. She served as a survey ship under Henry Mangles Denham and was sold in 1864.
  • The third Herald was a paddle river gunboat launched in 1890 and sold in 1903.
  • The fourth Herald was a 24-class minesweeping sloop launched as Merry Hampton in 1918, renamed in 1923 and converted to a survey ship. She was scuttled in 1942 at Seletar, raised by the Japanese, renamed Heiyo, and sunk by a mine in 1944.
  • The fifth Herald (H138) was a hydrographic survey ship launched in 1973 and sold in 2001.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

[edit] References

This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../h/m/s/HMS_Herald_3b23.html"
In other languages