HMS termagant_1822Termagant, 1822-1824 [renamed termagant_1822Herald, fate: 1862]
HMS termagant_1822Herald was launched at Kochi, India, in 1822 as HMS termagant_1822Termagant, at which time it was a 28-gun, 454-tonne fighting vessel.1 In 1824, it was transformed into an 8-gun survey ship and renamed termagant_1822Herald.2
As termagant_1822Herald, it was commanded by Kellet for survey work off Central America in 1848 until, suddenly,
Kellett was ordered to sail it to the Arctic Ocean as part of the search party for
the missing Franklin expedition; indeed, Kellett would make three attempts to rescue
Franklin, from 1848-50, but to no avail.3 In 1851, Kellett returned the termagant_1822Herald to England, whereafter, Captain Henry Denham employed it to survey the Fijian Islands
until it was decommissioned in 1862.4
This document, from 1846, mentions that the termagant_1822Herald, along with the pandoraPandora, was to provide a Survey of the
Southern Shore of Vancouvers Island.
- 1. Andrew Scott, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Placenames (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009), 259.
- 2. Ibid.
- 3. Ibid.
- 4. Ibid.