From Wikipedia.
60 tons, 60 feet length, 25 crew. Mounted one 32-pdr and later two 12-pdrs.
Launched May 1813 and commissioned spring 1813. Allowed to sink in Spring Lake at Ferrysburg, Michigan, in 1873.
It was a gunboat schooner built by the famed Adam and Noah Brown shipbuilders at Presque Isle, Pa (by Erie, Pa.) an was a part of Oliver Hazard Perry's fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie.
At the battle, Acting master George Senat was in command of it on 10 September 1813.
After the battle, the Porcupine was used as a hospital ship for wounded and captured British sailors.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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