HMS Porcupine (1746) was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1743, purchased in 1746, and sold in 1763. She became the mercantile Minerva, which in 1768 traded between London and Africa.[1]
Gosset, William Patrick (1986). The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793-1900. Mansell. ISBN 0-7201-1816-6.
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