Royal Navy — Destroyer
G93
HMS Porcupine (G93)
Service
- as HMS Porcupine31 August 1942 — in service1,101 days of the war
P-class destroyer
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Porcupine
- Pennant / hull number
- G93
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs
- Ordered
- 20 October 1939
- Laid down
- 26 December 1939
- Launched
- 10 June 1941
- Commissioned
- 31 August 1942
- Fate
- Torpedoed and crippled. Cut into two by the Royal Navy. Both halves converted into two individual accommodation hulks known as HMS Pork and HMS Pine.
By torpedo - Status
- Wreck
HMS Porcupine was a P-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number G93. Vickers-Armstrongs laid her keel on 26 December 1939. She entered service on 31 August 1942, having been launched on 10 June 1941.
Her class ran to eight ships. The class followed the L and M-class destroyer and was succeeded by the Q and R-class destroyer.
She was in commission for 1,101 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk by torpedo, at 35°57′N 3°58′W. The wreck survives.
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Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Porcupine (G93) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.