HMS Porpoise (1799)

Loss of the Porpoise & Cato 200 miles from land
History
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	93 ft 0 in (28.35 m) (overall) 74 ft 4 in (22.7 m) (keel)
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.