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HMS Porpoise Sydney 1900 AWM 302239.jpeg
HMS Porpoise anchored in Sydney Harbour in 1900.
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History
United Kingdom
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 Archer class cruiser diagrams Brasseys 1888.jpg
HMS Porpoise NH 57870
HMS Porpoise, date of photo unknown

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.

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. She left the Australia Station and was paid off at Portsmouth 20 May 1901. She was sold at Bombay on 10 February 1905.

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