second USS Porpoise was a 224-ton Dolphin-class brigantine. (In early American usage, a brigantine was referred to as a hermaphrodite brig.) Porpoise was... 5 KB (515 words) - 16:00, 26 August 2023 |
wrecked in 1833 USS Porpoise (1836), a brig in commission from 1836 to 1847, from 1848 to 1852, and from 1853 until lost in 1854 USS Porpoise (SS-7), a submarine... 770 bytes (156 words) - 10:51, 5 November 2021 |
attached to the Home Squadron and served off Tabasco and Tuxpan on the brig USS Washington. In the 1850s, he commanded the steamer Walker in the Gulf of... 6 KB (700 words) - 07:13, 20 December 2022 |
(USC&GS) named the island after Rear Admiral Lester Beardslee, (1836-1903) the commander of the USS Jamestown that surveyed Alaskan coves and harbors from 1879... 6 KB (405 words) - 04:28, 27 September 2023 |
commission, or in some cases removed from commission. The Order of Purple Porpoises for maritime personnel who crossed the junction of the Equator and the... 29 KB (3,309 words) - 03:24, 20 March 2024 |