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On July 1, 1837, the corvette Heroin, under the orders of the commander Jean-Baptiste Cecile, sailed out of Brest to cross the southern seas, there to represent France and to ensure the protection of the whalers and the hunters of seals. Forty seven days later the bay of Rio de Janeiro accommodates the three-masted ship which then sails for South Africa. Then began a long tour towards the east in the southern seas, via the island Marion, the Crozet Islands, Australia and New Zealand.

In November 1837, Heroin remained 3 weeks in the Crozet archipelago. The corvette visits all the islands of the archipelago, in particular the island of the Possession where the crew announces the presence of three teams of sealing:
American of the Atlas, under the command of the captain Barnum, arrived on September 28, 1837 and having made shipwreck on October 4 out of bay of the Ship,
American of Colossus, under the command of the Randal captain, arrived one month earlier and having undergone the same fate,
French of the steamer of Bordeaux n°2, under the command of the Ligier captain, present out of bay of the Ship since November 6, 1837.

Heroin wets in a sheltered split of the east coast which the crew indicates under the name of bay of the ship. Lieutenant Martial Fournier draws up of it a detailed survey, which announces even the house of fortune built by the American shipwrecked men; he is also the author of the first serious general chart of the archipelago.

Heroin returned to Brest on August 4, 1839, sailing a round the world tour of more than 45.000 nautical miles in 764 days.

Taken from a translation of a French website.

French Southern and Antarctic Terr. SG344

The French corvette was designed by Perry in 1827 and during the building of the vessel, the square stern was substituted for a round stern.
She was built as a wooden spar deck hulled corvette at the Arsenal at Toulon for the French Navy.
21 November 1827 keel laid down.
08 May 1830 launched as the HEROINE.
Displacement 1,015 ton, dim. 42.00 x 10.70 x 5.55m, (deepest draught)
Armament 20 – 30pdr. carronades and 4 – 12pdrs on gundeck and on spardeck 8 – 30pdr. carronades, around 1841 she carried 24 – 16cm shell guns on gundeck and on the spardeck 6 – 18 pdr. carronades
Sail area 1,667 m² when built and in 1845 1,450 m².
Crew 229.
01 July 1830 commissioned.

27 December 1831 sailed from Brest bound for Mexico and returned in Brest on 19 April 1832.
08 May 1832 sailed again from Brest bound for Lisbon, arrived at the Tagus River 10 June 1832.
01 July 1837 under command of Jean-Baptiste Cecile sailed from Brest for the Southern hemisphere for the protection of the French whalers in the Southern Oceans.
She sails via Rio de Janeiro then to South Africa made a call on 10 October 1837 at Tristan da Cunha, the captain and the surgeon Roussell de Vouzéme lands, Captain Cecille was disappointed that there was not a French fishing or whaling establishment on Tristan, At that time 42 peoples included children lived on the island. From Tristan da Cunha she sailed to Simonstown where after she made calls at the Marion Islands and the Crozet archipelago where she in a sheltered bay on the south-east side of Possession Island anchored in November 1837. She saved there 8 crew of the American schooner COLOSSUS and 18 crew members of the American whaler ATLAS which had been wrecked on the island before. The crew of the shipwrecked ships were later put on board of American whalers.
After making a detailed survey of the island, the HEROINE sailed from Possession Island arriving in Hobart Town, Tasmania on 31 January 1838 then to Sydney from where he sailed on 15 April bound for the Bay Of Islands in New Zealand to maintain order under the many French whalers which were in the New Zealand waters and survey the waters around the islands. Her stay in New Zealand is given on: http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarl ... 1-d15.html

After leaving New Zealand waters she headed for Tahiti then via Cape Horn sailed home arriving in Brest on 04 August 1839.
In 1839-40 modernized and repaired.
1843 At Cochinchina, (at that time French Vietnam) under command of Favin-Lévéque where she saved the lives of four French missionaries.
30 December 1850 disarmed and decommissioned.
1861 In use as guard pontoon renamed PLOUGASTEL.
1865 Scrapped.

French Southern & Antarctic Territories 1995 27f30 sg344, scott?
Source: http://www.dossiersmarine.org/c-c1-b.htm
Mr. Erhard Jung.