HMS Herald was an Atholl-class

Atholl class corvette

The Atholl-class corvettes were a series of fourteen Royal Navy sailing sixth-rate post ships built to an 1817 design by the Surveyors of the Navy...

 28-gun sixth-rate

Sixth-rate

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 corvette

Corvette

A corvette is a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, originally smaller than a frigate and larger than a coastal patrol craft or fast attack craft , although many recent designs resemble frigates in size and role...

 of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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. She was launched in 1821 as HMS Termagant, commissioned in 1824 as Herald and converted to a survey ship in 1845. After serving as a chapel ship from 1861, she was sold for breaking in 1862.

Construction

Launched at the East India Company

East India Company

The East India Company was an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China...

 dockyard at Cochin, British India on 15 November 1821, Termagant had a tonnage of 499 91/94 bm

Builder's Old Measurement

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. She was 113 in 8 in (34.65 m) long on the gundeck, 31 in 6 in (9.6 m) in beam and had a depth in hold of 8 in 9 in (2.67 m). She carried twenty 32-pounder carronade

Carronade

The carronade was a short smoothbore, cast iron cannon, developed for the Royal Navy by the Carron Company, an ironworks in Falkirk, Scotland, UK. It was used from the 1770s to the 1850s. Its main function was to serve as a powerful, short-range anti-ship and anti-crew weapon...

s, six 18-pounder carronades and two 9-pounder long gun

Long gun

The term long gun is used to describe classes of firearm and cannon with longer barrels than other classes. In small arms, a long gun is designed to be fired braced against the shoulder, in contrast to a handgun, while in artillery a long gun would be contrasted with a howitzer or carronade.-Small...

s. She was renamed Herald on 15 May 1824, and commissioned on 16 July 1824.

Service

Herald saw service in the East Indies and served during the First Opium War

First Opium War

The First Anglo-Chinese War , known popularly as the First Opium War or simply the Opium War, was fought between the United Kingdom and the Qing Dynasty of China over their conflicting viewpoints on diplomatic relations, trade, and the administration of justice...

. She was converted to a survey ship in 1845, serving in the Pacific. She conducted a survey of the coast of British Columbia after the Oregon boundary dispute

Oregon boundary dispute

The Oregon boundary dispute, or the Oregon Question, arose as a result of competing British and American claims to the Pacific Northwest of North America in the first half of the 19th century. Both the United Kingdom and the United States had territorial and commercial aspirations in the region...

 with the United States.

She was the first sailing ship to enter the Fitzroy Dock, Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour.

Fate

Herald was converted to a chapel ship and was used as a floating church in Shoreham in 1861. She was sold to Castle for breaking on 28 April 1862.