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William Loney RN - Background |
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Name | Heron | Explanation | |
Type | Brig | ||
Launched | 27 September 1847 | ||
Hull | Wooden | ||
Propulsion | Sail | ||
Builders measure | 482 tons | ||
Displacement | |||
Guns | 16 | ||
Fate | 1859 | ||
Class | |||
Ships book | |||
Note | 1859.05.09 foundered between Ascension & Sierra Leone | ||
Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
Date | Event | ||
3 October 1857 - 9 May 1859 | Commanded by Commander William Henderson Truscott, west coast of Africa (until the vessel foundered in a tornado between Ascension and Sierra Leone with the loss of 107 souls; Truscott and 24 other survived, but Triscott and two other survivors died of yellow fever on the passage home) |
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