HMS Heron

Several ships of the Royal Navy has been named HMS "Heron" after the wading bird.

* "Heron", an 18 gun 340 ton sloop purchased June 1804 (and previosly named "Jason"). Renamed HMS "Volcano" in 1810 following conversion to a bomb vessel. Sold on 28 August 1816.
* "Heron", a "Cruizer" class brig-sloop originally to have been called HMS "Rattlesnake" and launched at Upnor, Kent on 22 October 1812, and broken up in March 1831.
* "Heron", a 482 ton 16 gun brig launched at Chatham Dockyard on 27 September 1847 and lost at sea off West Africa on 9 May 1859.
* "Heron", a wooden screw "Albacore"-class gunboat launched at Miller's Shipyard, Liverpool on 5 July 1860 and broken up in Jamaica in 1881.
* "Heron", an 85 ton river gunboat equipped with two 2-pounder guns and constructed at Yarrow. Transferred to the Nigerian Government on 1 January 1899.
* "Heron" was a 100 ton War Department tender originally called "Empress". Following her transfer to the Royal Navy in 1906 she was renamed "Heron". Sold in September 1923.
* "Heron" was assigned to a 1,200 sloop, but the vessel had been renamed HMS "Auckland" by the time of her launch in 1938.
* The current "Heron" is the Royal Navy Air Station at Yeovilton in Somerset, England

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