HMS Porpoise

Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Porpoise, after the marine mammal, the Porpoise:


 * HMS Porpoise was a 16-gun sloop, formerly the Annapolis, purchased in 1777. She was renamed HMS Firebrand in 1778 and was burnt off Falmouth in 1781.
 * HMS Porpoise was a 14-gun storeship purchased in 1780 and sold in 1783.
 * HMS Porpoise was another storeship launched in 1798, renamed HMS Diligent in 1801 and sold in 1802.
 * HMS Porpoise was a 10-gun storeship, formerly the Spanish sloop Infanta Amelia. She was captured by HMS Argo in 1799 off Portugal, and wrecked in 1803 off New South Wales.
 * HMS Porpoise was a 10-gun storeship, formerly the Lord Melville. She was purchased in 1804 and sold in 1816.
 * HMS Porpoise 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 was a wood screw Albacore-class gunboat, launched in 1856 and broken up in 1864.
 * HMS Porpoise was an Archer-class torpedo cruiser launched in 1886 and sold in 1905.
 * HMS Porpoise was an Acasta-class destroyer launched in 1913 and sold to the Brazilian Navy in 1920, who renamed her "Maranhão".
 * HMS Porpoise was a Grampus-class submarine launched in 1932. She served in the Second World War and was sunk in 1945.
 * HMS Porpoise was a Porpoise-class diesel patrol submarine launched in 1956 and sunk as a target in 1985.