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    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...
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  • 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...
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    until 1838. One brig ship, USS Porpoise, later used in the expedition; having been commissioned by Secretary Dickerson in May 1836, circumnavigated the world...
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    Volume 745, p. 331. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, USS Porpoise (1836), Mon Aug 24 09:47:26 EDT 2015, Accessed 4 November 2015. United States...
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    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...
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    tons, 7 guns USS Porpoise – brig, 230 tons, 10 guns USS Sea Gull – schooner, 110 tons, 2 guns USS Flying Fish – schooner, 96 tons, 2 guns USS Oregon – brig...
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    USS Perch (SS-176) USS Permit (SS-178) USS Pickerel (SS-177) USS Pike (SS-173) USS Porpoise (SS-172) USS S-36 (SS-141) USS S-37 (SS-142) USS S-38 (SS-143) USS S-39 (SS-144)...
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  • (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...
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    IX-126) USS Porpoise (1820, 1836, SS-7, YFB-2047, SS-172) USS Port Blakeley (YT-266) USS Port Clinton (PC-1242) USS Port Discovery (YTB-267) USS Port Fire...
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  • 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...
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