HMS Porcupine (1895)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Porcupine.
Career (United Kingdom)
Name: HMS Porcupine
Builder: Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company
Launched: 19 September 1895
Fate: Sold and scrapped in 1920
General characteristics
Class and type:Janus-class destroyer
Displacement:320 long tons (330 t)
Length:200 ft (61 m)
Beam:20 ft (6.1 m)
Armament:1 x 12 pdr
5 x 6 pdr
2 x torpedo tubes

HMS Porcupine was a Janus-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was launched by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company in 1895, served in home waters and was in service during the First World War.

She undertook a refit at Chatham in late 1899, and was passed into the Fleet Reserve 15 January 1900.[1] The following year she served as part of the Medway Instructional Flotilla.[2]

She was sold off in 1920.

References

  1. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Tuesday, 16 January 1900. (36040), p. 9.
  2. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Tuesday, 19 March 1901. (36406), p. 8.