HMS Porcupine (G93)

(Casualty List)

Navy: Royal Navy
Type: Destroyer
Class: P Class
Pennant: G 93 
Built by: Vickers Armstrong (Newcastle-on-Tyne, U.K.) 
Laid down: 26 Dec, 1939 
Launched: 10 Jun, 1941 
Commissioned: 31 Aug, 1942 
Complement: 176
Lost: 9 Dec, 1942 North East of Oran, Algeria in position (c36.40'N, 00.04'W)  by 1 torpedo from German U-602 (Schüler). and declared a total loss. Whilst escorting depot ship 'Maidstone' from Gibraltar to Algiers. Not repaired.

Scrapped at Plymouth on 6 May 1946. 

 
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