HMS Herring

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Herring, 1804
Type: Schooner ; Armament 4
Disposal date or year : Exact date unknown 1814
Disposal Details : Foundered on the Halifax station. Captain John Murray
Notes:

1804 Built at Bermuda of the pencil cedar, measure, BOM, from 75 to 78 tons ; mount four 12-pounder carronades, with a crew of 20 men and boys.

May 1805 Halifax Station.

1808 a less than complimentary comment on this type of vessel, which, although built in 1804, is included by William James in the volume for 1808, presumably in the light of the experiences of those who had departed them, and the results achieved or otherwise.

Falmouth 22 Apr 1811 arrived from Cadiz with dispatches.

Falmouth 3 Feb 1812 arrived from Lisbon, after a passage of seven days.

Falmouth 10 Mar 1812 departed with dispatches for Lisbon.

Falmouth 4 Jul 1812 departed on a cruise.

11 Sep 1813, on a list of vessels in the Bermuda Gazette for vessels on the North America Station, Lt. J. Murray in cmd.