HMS Herald was an Atholl-class 28-gun sixth-rate corvette of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1822 as HMS Termagant, commissioned in 1824 as HMS Herald and converted to a survey ship in 1845. After serving as a chapel ship from 1861, she was sold for breaking in 1862.
HMS Herald in Sydney Harbour, 1857, albumen print.
Chart of the Pacific coast from Panama to Ecuador, surveyed by Kellet and Wood. This 1958 edition is based mainly on the original survey.
Phytelephas macrocarpa, the palm that produces vegetable ivory, found in coastal areas of Central America and northern South America. From Seemann (1857)
Petropavlosk in Kamchatka, Russian port of call for Herald en route to the Bering Strait.
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. A further four ships ordered to this design were cancelled.
Success undergoing repairs after running aground on Carnac Reef
Rattlesnake by Oswald Walters Brierly, 1853