Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Porpoise, after the marine mammal, the porpoise:
HMS Porpoise (1777) was a 16-gun sloop, formerly Annapolis, purchased in 1777. She was renamed HMS Firebrand in 1778 and was burnt off Falmouth in 1781.
HMS Porpoise (1780) was a 14-gun storeship purchased in 1780 and sold in 1783.
HMS Porpoise (1798) was also a storeship, launched in 1798, renamed HMS Diligent in 1801 and sold in 1802.
HMS Porpoise (1799) was a 10-gun storeship, formerly the Spanish sloop Infanta Amelia. HMS Argo captured her in 1799 off Portugal; Porpoise was wrecked in 1803 off New South Wales.
HMS Porpoise (1804) was a 10-gun storeship, formerly Lord Melville, launched in 1804. The Admiralty purchased her that same year and sold her in 1816. As the mercantile Lord Melville she made two voyages to Australia transporting convicts; he was last listed in 1820.
HMS Porpoise (1855) was a mortar vessel launched in 1855. She was renamed MV 8 later that year and hulked in 1866, before being sold in 1885.
HMS Porpoise (1856) was a wood screw Albacore-class gunboat, launched in 1856 and broken up in 1864.
HMS Porpoise (1886) was an Archer-class torpedo cruiser launched in 1886 and sold in 1905.
HMS Porpoise (1913) was an Acasta-class destroyer launched in 1913 and sold to the Brazilian Navy in 1920, who renamed her Maranhão.
HMS Porpoise (N14) was a Grampus-class submarine launched in 1932. She served in the Second World War and was sunk in 1945.
HMS Porpoise (S01) was a Porpoise-class diesel patrol submarine launched in 1956 and sunk as a target in 1985.
ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMSPorpoise, after the marine mammal, the porpoise: HMSPorpoise (1777) was a 16-gun sloop, formerly Annapolis...
The Development of British Submarines: From Holland No. 1 (1901) to HMSPorpoise (1930). RN Subs: Website of the Barrow Submariners Association. Retrieved...
installed and Bligh, now deposed, made for Hobart in Tasmania aboard HMSPorpoise. Bligh failed to gain support from the authorities in Hobart to retake...
the Samoan civil unrest in 1899, she took part in operations with HMSPorpoise and HMS Royalist. Spending between 1901 and 1903 in reserve at Sydney before...
reefs include Bird Islet, West Islet and Porpoise Cay. The reef gained its name through the sinking of HMSPorpoise and Cato which were lost on Wreck Reefs...
the outfitting and equipping of HMSPorpoise for a voyage to New South Wales, 1797–1801 "Plants List on board HMSPorpoise". Archived from the original on...
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naval gunfire support. The cruisers USS Philadelphia, HMS Tauranga, HMSPorpoise and the corvette HMS Royalist landed the sailors and marines, Royalist was...
the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System HMSPorpoise (S01), a 1956 Porpoise-class submarine of the Royal Navy MULTI-S01, an encryption...
observation was interrupted due to damage and many specimens transferred to HMSPorpoise were lost when it sank. The observations of Brown on the flora of this...
problems with his subordinates. The Admiralty gave command of the storeship HMSPorpoise and the convoy to the lower-ranked Captain Joseph Short, while Bligh...
Henneman. Retrieved 7 December 2010. Kemble, Mine. "British Submarine HMSPorpoise". British Submarines of World War 2. Archived from the original on 26...
to Western Australia. The first to arrive was HMSPorpoise, on 10 August, followed by the depot ship HMS Maidstone in early September while the eleven...
HMSPorpoise in 1801. Mollie Gillen records that serving with Hibbs on HMSPorpoise was his young son George. Hibbs was discharged from HMSPorpoise at...
Directorate of Naval Ordnance. He became commanding officer of the cruiser HMSPorpoise on the Australian Station in November 1897 and became involved in managing...
to Australia in HMSPorpoise. (The Malay crew would be transported to Fremantle where they stayed for the rest of the war.) Porpoise arrived safely back...
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