| Name: | PORCUPINE |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 28/03/1894 |
| Launched: | 19/09/1895 |
| Completed: | 03/1896 |
| Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Jarrow |
| Yard Number: | 683 |
| Dimensions: | 279disp - 330disp, 200.0 x 19.5 x 8.0(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x VT3cyl, 3900ihp |
| Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 27.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 1 x 12pdr QF, 5 x 1 x 6pdr guns; 2 x 18.0inch torpedoes |
| History: | |
| 03/1896 | British Royal Navy |
| 29/04/1920 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Member of the Janus Class of Destroyers |
| 1913: Redesignated as a member of the A Class | |
| 29/04/1920: Sold for breaking up by TW Ward at Rainham, Essex |
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Marine Engineer, October 1895