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Allied Warships

HMS Porcupine (G 93)

Destroyer of the P class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassP 
PennantG 93 
Built byVickers Armstrong (Newcastle-on-Tyne, U.K.) : Vickers Armstrong (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.) 
Ordered20 Oct, 1939 
Laid down26 Dec, 1939 
Launched10 Jun, 1941 
Commissioned31 Aug, 1942 
End service9 Dec, 1942 
Loss position
 
HistoryHMS Porcupine (Cdr. George Scott Stewart, RAN) was torpedoed on 9 December 1942 north east of Oran, Algeria in position 36º40'N, 00º04'W by the German submarine U-602 and declared a total loss.

Scrapped at Plymouth on 6 May 1946.

Commanding Officer:
Cdr. George Scott Stewart, RAN
5 June 1942 > 

Hit by U-boat
A total loss on 9 Dec, 1942 by U-602 (Schüler).


Noteable events involving Porcupine include:

11 Nov, 1942
The Dutch destroyer HrMs Isaac Sweers (Capt. W. Harmsen, RNethN) and the British destroyer HMS Porcupine (Cdr. G.S. Stewart, RAN) together pick up 241 survivors from the Dutch troop transport Nieuw Zeeland that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-380 about 80 miles east of Gibraltar in position 35º57'N, 03º58'W.


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