Porpoise Class Submarine

Porpoise class submarine can refer to:

  • The British Grampus class of six submarines launched in the 1930s is sometimes called the Porpoise class
  • The British Porpoise class of eight submarines launched in the 1950s
  • The United States Porpoise class of ten submarines launched in the 1930s

Famous quotes containing the words porpoise and/or class:

    ““Will you walk a little faster?” said a whiting to a snail,
    “There’s a porpoise close behind us, and he’s treading on my
    tail.”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)