USN · IX

Porcupine

Sunk

Station tanker, IX-126, the second Porcupine. Laid down as the Liberty tanker Leif Ericson and commissioned on 30 December 1943 with Lieutenant Daniel M. Paul in command. She stored and moved fuel from Noumea out to New Guinea and Manus. On 30 December 1944, in resupply convoy Uncle plus 15, a kamikaze hit her off White Beach in Mangarin Bay while she was full of aviation gasoline. She burned to the waterline.

Type	Unclassified miscellaneous (IX)
Hull	IX-126
Builder	Delta Shipbuilding, New Orleans
Launched	1943-11-24
Commissioned	1943-12-30
Fate	Sunk. On 30 December 1944 a kamikaze hit her off White Beach, Mangarin Bay, Mindoro, while she was unloading aviation gasoline. The gasoline burned her to the waterline. Seven of her crew were killed and eight wounded. Struck from the Navy list on 19 January 1945.
Command	Paul, Daniel M. Captain from 30 December 1943; Named at commissioning. The account of 30 December 1944 does not say he was still in command

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

USS Porcupine (IX-126) at anchor, 17 October 1944, Southwest Pacific. U.S. Navy photograph 80-G-295412. Public domain.

The pictures on this page are the originals.

Command

DPPaul, Daniel M.Captain from 30 December 1943Named at commissioning. The account of 30 December 1944 does not say he was still in command

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