HMS 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.
Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Herald during the years 1845-51, under the command of Captain Henry Kellett, being a circumnavigation of the globe, and three cruises to the Arctic regions in search of Sir John Franklin (1853)
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24 May 1838 Commanded by Captain Joseph Nias, East Indies (including the first Anglo-Chinese war)
(January 1843) Out of commission at Chatham
8 February 1845 – 1848 Commanded by Captain Henry Kellett, Pacific, conducting (together with her tender Pandora, James Wood) a preliminary survey of the British Columbia coast following the Oregon boundary dispute with the United States
18 February 1852 Commanded by Captain Henry Mangles Denham, Fiji islands
1 April 1857 Commanded by Captain Henry Mangles Denham, Fiji islands.
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Herald HMS 1854
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Built as a 6th Rate in Cochin, India for the Royal Navy.
March 1820 keel laid down
15 Nov. 1822 launched under the name HMS TERMAGANT. One of the Athol class.
Tonnage 500 ton (bm), dim. 114 x 32ft.
Sloop rigged, built of teak.
Armament 20 – 32 pdrs., 6 – 18 pdrs., 2 – 9 pdrs..
Crew 175 men.
1822 Her first commander was Capt. Lord Henry F. Thynne, who was posted to her in July 1822 in the East Indies.
She was renamed HMS HERALD on 15th May 1824 and commissioned as a survey sloop by Cdr. Hon J.Leeke at Portsmouth on 31 May 1824.
Were she was employed the first years as a survey vessel I could not find, but she reappears in 1840 under command of Captain Nias with a armament of 20 guns.
The first Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand Captain Hobson sailed on her from Sydney to the Bay of Islands where she arrived on 29 Jan. 1840. On 21 February the Governor on board of the HERALD sailed out to examine the neighborhood of Tamaki for an alternate site for his capital, which at that time was at the Bay of Islands.
On arrival in Waitemate Harbour His Excellency was pointing out the spot, the present site of Auckland.
Captain Nias (later Admiral) was not an easy man to work with and on 1 March the Governor suffered a stroke, some say due to a rift the Governor had with Captain Nias.
The first chart of the Waitemata Harbour was made by Lieutenant Fisher and Mr. Bean officers of HMS HERALD in February 1840. The chart dated 28 February 1840, and is the first chart made of Auckland harbour.
After the Treaty of Waitangi, all the Maori Chiefs in New Zealand had to sign the treaty papers and the HERALD sailed to the South Island to gather some of the signatures there of the Maori Chiefs there.
On the New Zealand Coast she did not much more survey work.
Then I found the HERALD again still under command of Capt. Nias, when she sailed on 19 Feb. 1841 with a armament of 26 guns, from Macao roads to the Bogue, China (Opium War) with the Light Squadron, the Light Squadron was under command of Captain Herbert . The squadron consisted of the following ships HMS CALLIOPE, SAMARANG, HERALD, ALLIGATOR and SULPHUR.
She was at the naval operations before Canton on 18 March 1841, and also by the second battle of Canton on 19 May.
21 August 1841 she was guard ship at Hong Kong.
In 1845 under command of Capt. Henry Kellett for a surveying expedition and together with H.M. brigatine PANDORA (11 guns) as a tender, they sailed to the Pacific to continue the surveying of the west coast of South America from Guayaquil up to Panama. She then accompanied by H.M. Survey Cutter PLOVER sailed up the Bering Strait with the intention of meeting up with Franklin’s expedition. On passage KELLETT discovered an island of the west coast of Siberia that had been previously been reported by Baron Wrangel, which had since been known as Wrangel Land.
Most of her fame the HERALD got under command of Captain Henry Mangles Denham, when she sailed from England on 21 February 1852 as survey vessel in one of the longest and very important surveying cruise to Australia and the South West Pacific.
11 Nov. 1852 the HMS HERALD arrived on Tristan da Cunha, and Capt Denham visit the settlement, and general hydrographic and astronomical observations were made. The surgeon Dr. Rayner examines the health of the islanders.
The HMS HERALD left the island on 12 November, and via Cape Town she sailed to Australia were she arrived on 18 February 1853.
During her stay in Australian waters she made survey voyages around the South Pacific, made also a call at the Kermadec Islands on 2 July 1854, Captain Denham son Fleetwood James Denham died there (16 years old) from a tropical fever. Buried in Denham Bay, The brass plaque heading this grave has been preserved.
The same year was she sent from New Caledonia to Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands to investigate a report of a white man living on the island, the thought being that it could be Benjamin Boyd the manager of the Royal Bank and the Australian Wool Company, but when he got bankrupt , he sailed from Australia in the WANDERER for San Francisco, he was most probably murdered on 15 October 1851 and eaten by the natives. Not a trace of a white man living on Guadalcanal could be found by the officers of the HERALD, they located some trees with the name Boyd carved in it, but concluded that the carving had been done before his death.
She sailed via Surabaya, where she left on 21 Nov. 1860 for England, arrived at Chatham 01 June 1861.
She was sold on 28 April 1862 to Castle at Charlton, most possible for breaking up.
Also on Tristan da Cunha issued in 2002
http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/T.HTM The Opium Clippers by Basil Lubbock. The White Ensign in Early New Zealand, by J.O’C.Ross. The Stern Coast by J.O’C. Ross. http://www.btinternet.com/~sa_sa/trista ... ls_19.html Gold Fleet for California by Charles Bateson.
March 1820 keel laid down
15 Nov. 1822 launched under the name HMS TERMAGANT. One of the Athol class.
Tonnage 500 ton (bm), dim. 114 x 32ft.
Sloop rigged, built of teak.
Armament 20 – 32 pdrs., 6 – 18 pdrs., 2 – 9 pdrs..
Crew 175 men.
1822 Her first commander was Capt. Lord Henry F. Thynne, who was posted to her in July 1822 in the East Indies.
She was renamed HMS HERALD on 15th May 1824 and commissioned as a survey sloop by Cdr. Hon J.Leeke at Portsmouth on 31 May 1824.
Were she was employed the first years as a survey vessel I could not find, but she reappears in 1840 under command of Captain Nias with a armament of 20 guns.
The first Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand Captain Hobson sailed on her from Sydney to the Bay of Islands where she arrived on 29 Jan. 1840. On 21 February the Governor on board of the HERALD sailed out to examine the neighborhood of Tamaki for an alternate site for his capital, which at that time was at the Bay of Islands.
On arrival in Waitemate Harbour His Excellency was pointing out the spot, the present site of Auckland.
Captain Nias (later Admiral) was not an easy man to work with and on 1 March the Governor suffered a stroke, some say due to a rift the Governor had with Captain Nias.
The first chart of the Waitemata Harbour was made by Lieutenant Fisher and Mr. Bean officers of HMS HERALD in February 1840. The chart dated 28 February 1840, and is the first chart made of Auckland harbour.
After the Treaty of Waitangi, all the Maori Chiefs in New Zealand had to sign the treaty papers and the HERALD sailed to the South Island to gather some of the signatures there of the Maori Chiefs there.
On the New Zealand Coast she did not much more survey work.
Then I found the HERALD again still under command of Capt. Nias, when she sailed on 19 Feb. 1841 with a armament of 26 guns, from Macao roads to the Bogue, China (Opium War) with the Light Squadron, the Light Squadron was under command of Captain Herbert . The squadron consisted of the following ships HMS CALLIOPE, SAMARANG, HERALD, ALLIGATOR and SULPHUR.
She was at the naval operations before Canton on 18 March 1841, and also by the second battle of Canton on 19 May.
21 August 1841 she was guard ship at Hong Kong.
In 1845 under command of Capt. Henry Kellett for a surveying expedition and together with H.M. brigatine PANDORA (11 guns) as a tender, they sailed to the Pacific to continue the surveying of the west coast of South America from Guayaquil up to Panama. She then accompanied by H.M. Survey Cutter PLOVER sailed up the Bering Strait with the intention of meeting up with Franklin’s expedition. On passage KELLETT discovered an island of the west coast of Siberia that had been previously been reported by Baron Wrangel, which had since been known as Wrangel Land.
Most of her fame the HERALD got under command of Captain Henry Mangles Denham, when she sailed from England on 21 February 1852 as survey vessel in one of the longest and very important surveying cruise to Australia and the South West Pacific.
11 Nov. 1852 the HMS HERALD arrived on Tristan da Cunha, and Capt Denham visit the settlement, and general hydrographic and astronomical observations were made. The surgeon Dr. Rayner examines the health of the islanders.
The HMS HERALD left the island on 12 November, and via Cape Town she sailed to Australia were she arrived on 18 February 1853.
During her stay in Australian waters she made survey voyages around the South Pacific, made also a call at the Kermadec Islands on 2 July 1854, Captain Denham son Fleetwood James Denham died there (16 years old) from a tropical fever. Buried in Denham Bay, The brass plaque heading this grave has been preserved.
The same year was she sent from New Caledonia to Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands to investigate a report of a white man living on the island, the thought being that it could be Benjamin Boyd the manager of the Royal Bank and the Australian Wool Company, but when he got bankrupt , he sailed from Australia in the WANDERER for San Francisco, he was most probably murdered on 15 October 1851 and eaten by the natives. Not a trace of a white man living on Guadalcanal could be found by the officers of the HERALD, they located some trees with the name Boyd carved in it, but concluded that the carving had been done before his death.
She sailed via Surabaya, where she left on 21 Nov. 1860 for England, arrived at Chatham 01 June 1861.
She was sold on 28 April 1862 to Castle at Charlton, most possible for breaking up.
Also on Tristan da Cunha issued in 2002
http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/T.HTM The Opium Clippers by Basil Lubbock. The White Ensign in Early New Zealand, by J.O’C.Ross. The Stern Coast by J.O’C. Ross. http://www.btinternet.com/~sa_sa/trista ... ls_19.html Gold Fleet for California by Charles Bateson.
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