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| Name | Heron (1847) | Explanation | |
| Type | 2nd class brig | ||
| Launched | 27 September 1847 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Sail | ||
| Builders measure | 482 tons | ||
| Displacement | |||
| Guns | 16 | ||
| Fate | 1859 | ||
| Class | Acorn | ||
| 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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