| Name: | HERON |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 1802 |
| Completed: | 03/1802 |
| Builder: | Sir Cuthbert Heron |
| Yard: | South Shields |
| Yard Number: | |
| Dimensions: | 245tonsb, 87.5 x 26.0 x ?ft |
| Engines: | None |
| Engines by: | n/a |
| Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Snow |
| Construction: | Wood |
| Reg Number: | |
| History: | |
| 12/03/1802 | Sir Cuthbert Heron, South Shields (later Newcastle) |
| 02/02/1825 | Sir Cuthbert Heron & Thomas Heron, Newcastle |
| 30/04/1831 | Thomas Tindle, North Shields & James Wilson, Newcastle |
| 19/11/1839 | Thomas Tindle, North Shields & Roger Hodgson, South Shields |
| 20/11/1839 | Thomas Tindle, North Shields |
| 10/02/1853 | Wrecked (?) |
| Comments: | Capacity 290 chaldrons of coal at London |
| Capacity 11000 standard deals from the Baltic | |
| 10/02/1853: A vessel named HERON was wrecked on the Heaps | |
| The Heaps was a sand bank in the Thames Estuary |