High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The second USS Porpoise was a hermaphrodite (square-rigged foremast and schooner-rigged mainmast) brig in the United States Navy during the Mexican-American War. She was based on the same plans as Dolphin. Porpoise was authorized by Congress on 30 June 1834; built in 1835; and launched 31 May 1836; Lieutenant William Ramsay in command. Porpoise sailed from Boston, Massachusetts on 25 August 1836, called at various southern ports, and conducted coastal surveying operations under the direction of Lt. Charles Wilkes in the summer of 1837. In October 1837, she hunted pirates along the southern coast, and then resumed her survey work in December.

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