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Name: PORCUPINE
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 26/12/1939
Launched: 10/06/1941
Completed: 31/08/1942
Builder: Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd
Yard: High Walker
Yard Number: 24
Dimensions: 1640disp - 2250disp, 328.8 x 35.0 x 9.0(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, SR Geared, 40000shp
Engines by: Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 36.8knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 5 x 1 x 4.0ins AA, 1 x 4 x 2pdr AA, 4 x 1 x 20mm AA guns;
1 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes ; 4 x depth charge throwers
History:
31/08/1942 British Royal Navy
1947 Broken up
Comments: A member of the P Class of War Emergency Destroyers
Allocated pennant number G93
09/12/1942: Torpedoed & nearly broken in two by U-Boat U602
Towed to Arzew in Algeria
03/1943: Towed to Oran and declared a total loss
Deliberately cut in two and de-armed
06/1943: Towed in two parts to Portsmouth
14/01/1944: Re-commissioned as accommodation vessels PORK and PINE
06/05/1946: Sold for breaking up
1947: Broken up by Demelweek & Redding at Portsmouth


Above photo is courtesy of Photoship

Above & below photos show the aft end of PORCUPINE 'in tow' of tug SWARTHY

Above two photos are copyright of the Imperial War Museum