Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Heron

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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)