Herald (ship)

Herald (ship)

The Herald was a sailing ship, active in whaling in the Pacific. A log exists for 1858-1859. Its home port was New Bedford, Massachusetts, owner and master George H. Cash.

She was purchased for $4,000 at her home port for $4,000 to be used as part of the Stone Fleet and was sunk along with 15 other vessels on December 20, 1861, about four miles south-southeast of Fort Sumter and three miles east-southeast of the light on Morris Island. ["Treasures of the Confederate Coast: the "real Rhett Butler" & Other Revelations" by Dr. E. Lee Spence, (Narwhal Press, Charleston/Miami, 1995) [ISBN 1886391017] [ISBN 1886391009] , p. 146]

References

[http://www.nha.org/library/ms/ms220.htm Ships Log]


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