Loss of the Porpoise & Cato 200 miles from land
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History | |
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Spain | |
Name | Infanta Amelia |
Builder | Dockyard, Bilbao |
Launched | c.1799 |
Captured | 6 August 1799 |
Great Britain | |
Name | HMS Porpoise |
Launched | 6 August 1799 by capture |
Fate | Wrecked 17 August 1803 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Type | sloop |
Tons burthen | 308 (bm) |
Length |
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Beam | 27 ft 11 in (8.51 m) |
Depth of hold | 12 ft 3 in (3.73 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Sail plan | Schooner |
Armament | 10 × 6-pounder guns |
HMS Porpoise was a 12-gun sloop-of-war originally built in Bilbao, Spain, as the packet ship Infanta Amelia. On 6 August 1799 HMS Argo captured her off the coast of Portugal.[2] Porpoise wrecked in 1803 on the North coast of what was then part of the Colony of New South Wales, now called Wreck Reefs, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.