French corvette L’Heroine visited Hobart Town, Tasmania according to the Australian newspaper Commercial Journal and Advertisor dated Saturday 10 February 1838

An item dated 31 January reported the arrival at Hobart Town of the French 32 guns-corvette L’Heroine commanded by Cecille coming from Havre de Grace departed on 1 July 1837. At sea she had the survivors of the American whaling schooner Colossus and whaler Atlas lost off the Crozet Islands turned over to other American whalers. The Sydney Monitor dated Friday 1838 wrote that the corvette was sent for the protection of the 14 French whalers which arrival was daily expected.