HMS Porpoise (1886)


HMS Porpoise anchored in Sydney Harbour in 1900.
Career
Name: HMS Porpoise
Builder: J. & G. Thompson, Glasgow
Launched: 7 May 1886
Fate: sold on 10 February 1905 for breaking up at Bombay.
General characteristics
Class and type: Archer-class torpedo cruiser
Notes:

HMS Porpoise was an Archer-class torpedo cruiser of the Royal Navy, built by J. & G. Thompson at Glasgow and launched on 7 May 1886.[1]

Commenced service on the Australia Station in December 1897. During the Samoan civil unrest in 1899, she took part in operations with HMS Royalist and HMS Tauranga.[1] She left the Australia Station in June 1901. She was sold at Bombay on 10 February 1905.[1]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c Bastock, p.108.

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