Porpoise (ship)

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USS Porpoise
USS Porpoise (1836) .jpg
Ship data
Ship type Brigantine
Whereabouts Lost in 1854
Ship dimensions and crew
length
27 m ( Lüa )
width 7.6 m
Draft Max. 3.4 m
measurement 228 GRT
 
crew 65
Rigging and rigging
Number of masts 2
Machine system
machine Square sail
Top
speed 		10 kn (19 km / h)

The USS Porpoise was a 1835-built Brigantine the United States .

It was launched on May 31, 1836. It was one of the two ships of the United States Exploring Expedition (1838–1843) under the direction of Charles Wilkes , its captain was Cadwalader Ringgold (1802–1867). During this research trip in 1840 it was used to map the coastline of what is now known as Wilkesland , part of East Antarctica . The ship met on January 29, 1840 on the Third French Antarctic Expedition (1837-1840) under the direction of Jules Dumont d'Urville .

She was later used as a patrol ship off the west coast of Africa to stop the slave trade there and from 1846 to 1848 in the Mexican-American War . After she was temporarily shut down in 1852, she took part under the command of Ringgolds in the North Pacific Exploring and Surveying Expedition (1853-1856). In September 1854 she went missing in the China Sea .

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