Several ships of the
Royal Navy
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has been named HMS ''Heron'' after the
wading bird
Birders in Canada and the United States refer to several families of long-legged wading birds in semi-aquatic ecosystems as waders. These include the families Phoenicopteridae (flamingos), Ciconiidae (storks), Threskiornithidae (ibises and s ...
.
* , an 18-gun 340-ton sloop purchased June 1804 (and previously named ''Jason''). Renamed HMS ''Volcano'' in 1810 following conversion to a
bomb vessel
A bomb vessel, bomb ship, bomb ketch, or simply bomb was a type of wooden sailing naval ship. Its primary armament was not cannons (Naval long gun, long guns or carronades) – although bomb vessels carried a few cannons for self-defence – but ...
. Sold on 28 August 1816.
* , a originally to have been called HMS ''Rattlesnake'' and launched at
Upnor, Kent on 22 October 1812, and broken up in March 1831.
* , 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.
* , a wooden screw launched at Miller's Shipyard, Liverpool on 5 July 1860 and broken up in Jamaica in 1881.
* , 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 . 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 by the time of her launch in 1938.
*
HMS ''Heron II'' was a short-term resident at
RNAS Haldon before moving to
RNAS Charlton Horethorne during World War II. It closed in 1948.
*
HMS ''Heron'' (shore establishment) is the designation currently given to
RNAS Yeovilton
Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, commonly referred to as WAFU central, (HMS ''Heron'') is an airbase of the Royal Navy, sited a few miles north of Yeovil, in the English county of Somerset. It is one of two active Fleet Air Arm bases, the ...
in Somerset, England
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Royal Navy ship names