| 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