HMS Porpoise (1798)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Porpoise and HMS Diligent.
Career (UK)
Name: HMS Porpoise
Ordered: 24 November 1797 (established)
Builder: Hill & Mellish, Limehouse
Launched: 16 May 1798
Renamed: HMS Diligent (5 January 1799)
Fate: Sold 1802
General characteristics [1]
Tons burthen:324 (bm)
Length:96 ft 2 in (29.3 m) (overall)
76 ft 10 in (23.4 m) (keel)
Beam:28 ft 2 in (8.6 m)
Depth of hold:12 ft 0 in (3.7 m)
Complement:33
Armament:10 x 6-pounder guns
12-pounder carronades later replaced some or all of the guns

HMS Porpoise was built as a storeship to a commercial design by John Henslow (Surveyor of the Navy), launched in 1798 and purchased by the Royal Navy. The Navy commissioned her in July 1798 under Lieutenant Walter Scott. The Navy renamed her Diligent in 1799 and sold her in 1802 at the end of the French Revolutionary Wars.[1]

Citations

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Winfield (2008), p.397.

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