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- References
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2017}}{{Use British English|date=July 2017}}Nine vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Porcupine, after the porcupine, a rodent belonging to the families Erethizontidae or Hystricidae. - {{HMS|Porcupine|1746}} was a 16-gun sloop purchased in 1746 and sold in 1763.
- {{HMS|Porcupine|1777}} was a 24-gun post ship launched in 1777 and broken up in 1805.
- HMS Porcupine was a 16-gun sloop purchased in Jamaica in 1777 and sold in 1788.
- {{HMS|Porcupine|1807}} was a 22-gun post ship launched in 1807 and sold in 1816.
- HMS Porcupine was to have been a 28-gun sixth rate; ordered in 1819, she was canceled in 1832.
- {{HMS|Porcupine|1844}} was a wooden paddle wheel surveying vessel built at Deptford and sold in 1883.
- {{HMS|Porcupine|1895}} was a {{sclass-|Janus|destroyer}} launched by Palmers in 1895 that served in home waters and was sold in 1920.
- {{HMS|Porcupine|G93}} was a P-class destroyer launched in 1941 and torpedoed by {{GS|U-602||2}} in the Mediterranean in 1942.
- HMS Porcupine was to have been a survey ship, renamed in 1967 as HMS Barracouta, but the order was cancelled in 1967.
References- {{Colledge}}
- {{cite book|last=Gossett|first=William Patrick|year=1986|title=The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900|publisher=Mansell|isbn=0-7201-1816-6}}
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