• The first Herald
  HMS Herald (1806)
  HMS Herald was an 18-gun ship-sloop of the Cormorant class in the Royal Navy, launched in 1806 at Littlehampton. In 1810 she was reclassed as a 20-gun sixth rate ship , and again re-rated as 24 guns in 1817, just before she was broken up.-Adriatic:Herald was commissioned in March 1806 under Captain...
  
   was an 18-gun ship sloop launched in 1806, re-classed as a 20-gun Sixth Rate in 1810 and 24-gun in 1817, and broken up in 1817.
• The second Herald
  HMS Herald (1822)
  HMS Herald was an Atholl-class 28-gun sixth-rate corvette of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1821 as HMS Termagant, commissioned in 1824 as Herald and converted to a survey ship in 1845...
  
   was a 500-ton, 28-gun sixth-rate, launched as Termagant
  HMS Termagant
  Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Termagant, after Termagant, a god that Medieval Europeans believed Muslims worshipped, and that later came to be popularised by Shakespeare to mean a bullying person:...
  
   in 1822 and renamed in 1824. She served as a survey ship under Henry Kellett
  Henry Kellett
  Vice Admiral Sir Henry Kellett KCB was a British naval officer and explorer.-Naval career:Kellett joined the Royal Navy in 1822...
  
   and Henry Mangles Denham
  Henry Mangles Denham
  Vice Admiral Sir Henry Mangles Denham, CMG was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station.-Early career:...
  
   and was sold in 1864.
• The third Herald was a paddle river gunboat
  Gunboat
  A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.-History:...
  
   launched in 1890 and sold in 1903.
• The fourth Herald was a 24-class
  24 class sloop
  The 24 class was a class of minesweeping sloops. Derived from the preceding , but designed to appear double-ended. Twenty-four ships to this design were ordered between December 1916 and April 1917 under the Emergency War Programme for the Royal Navy in World War I, although two of them were...
  
   minesweeping
  Minesweeper (ship)
  A minesweeper is a small naval warship designed to counter the threat posed by naval mines. Minesweepers generally detect then neutralize mines in advance of other naval operations.-History:...
  
   sloop
  Sloop-of-war
  In the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. As the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above, this meant that the term sloop-of-war actually encompassed all the unrated combat vessels including the...
  
   launched as Merry Hampton in 1918, renamed in 1923 and converted to a survey ship. She was scuttled in 1942 at Seletar
  Seletar
  Seletar is an area of Singapore within its North-East Region. Seletar commonly refers to the areas south of Yishun and west of Sungei Punggol, covering Yio Chu Kang near Jalan Kayu , the Lower Seletar Reservoir and part of Upper Thomson .The Seletar Planning Area, an urban planning zone under the...
  
  , raised by the Japanese, renamed Heiyo, and sunk by a mine in 1944.
• The fifth Herald (H138)
  HMS Herald (H138)
  HMS Herald was a Hecla-class ocean survey ship that served with the Royal Navy during both the Falklands War and Gulf War. She was built by Robb Caledon Shipbuilders in Leith, Scotland....
  
   was a hydrographic
  Hydrography
  Hydrography is the measurement of the depths, the tides and currents of a body of water and establishment of the sea, river or lake bed topography and morphology. Normally and historically for the purpose of charting a body of water for the safe navigation of shipping...
  
  survey ship launched in 1973 and sold in 2001.

External links

• Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Termagant (Herald)