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Several ships of the Royal Navy has been named HMS ''Heron'' after the wading bird. * HMS ''Heron'', an 18 gun 340 ton sloop purchased June 1804 (and previously named ''Jason''). Renamed HMS ''Volcano'' in 1810 following conversion to a bomb vessel. Sold on 28 August 1816. * HMS ''Heron'', a ''Cruizer'' class brig-sloop originally to have been called HMS ''Rattlesnake'' and launched at Upnor, Kent on 22 October 1812, and broken up in March 1831. * HMS ''Heron'', a 482 ton 16 gun brig launched at Chatham Dockyard on 27 September 1847 and lost at sea off West Africa on 9 May 1859. * HMS ''Heron'', a wooden screw ''Albacore''-class gunboat launched at Miller's Shipyard, Liverpool on 5 July 1860 and broken up in Jamaica in 1881. * HMS ''Heron'', an 85 ton river gunboat equipped with two 2-pounder guns and constructed at Yarrow. Transferred to the Nigerian Government on 1 January 1899. * ''HMS Heron'' was a 100 ton War Department tender originally called ''Empress''. Following her transfer to the Royal Navy in 1906 she was renamed ''Heron''. Sold in September 1923. * ''HMS Heron'' was assigned to a 1,200 ton sloop, but the vessel had been renamed HMS ''Auckland'' by the time of her launch in 1938. * The current ''HMS Heron'' is the Royal Navy Air Station at Yeovilton in Somerset, England * ''HMS Heron II'' was a short-lived airfield on Little Haldon during World War II. ==References== * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Heron」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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