A number of sailing ships have been named ''Herald'', for the
Herald:
* was launched at
Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1797. The
US Navy
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purchased her from Edward Davis in 1798 and sold her in 1801. She became the French 20-gun privateer
corvette ''Africaine''. In 1804 a British privateer seized her on 4 May 1804 at
Charleston, South Carolina
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. The seizure gave rise to a case in the U.S. courts that defined the limits of U.S. territorial waters. The U.S. courts ruled that the privateer had seized ''Africaine'' outside U.S. jurisdiction. ''Africaine'' then became a Liverpool-based
slave ship
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that made two voyages carrying slaves from West Africa to the
West Indies
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. After the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 she became a
West Indiaman that two French privateers captured in late 1807 or early 1808.
* acquired a
letter of marque on 15 January 1798. On 24 February as she was entering the Bay of Naples, three French privateers attacked her; in a three-hour action she repelled the attack. In August she captured a Spanish ship, but in December 1798 or January 1799 five Spanish frigates captured ''Herald''.
*''Herald'' was a ship launched in 1799 at
Whitby
Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is on the Yorkshire Coast at the mouth of the River Esk, North Yorkshire, River Esk and has a maritime, mineral and tourist economy.
From the Middle Ages, Whitby ...
that the British
Royal Navy
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purchased in 1803 and renamed . The Navy sold her in 1816 and she returned to mercantile service under her original name. She was lost in 1835.
*, was a 55-ton (bm) schooner, the first vessel built in New Zealand. Missionaries launched her in 1826, and she was wrecked in 1828.
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