High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Porcupine' was a gunboat schooner built by Adam and Noah Brown at Presque Isle, Pennsylvania and commissioned in the United States Navy during the War of 1812 as part of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's Lake Erie Fleet. Under the command of Acting Master George Senat, she took part in the Battle of Lake Erie on 10 September 1813. She was subsequently utilized as a hospital ship for captured wounded seamen. While lying at anchor with USS Ohio and USS Somers at the head of the Niagara River 12 August 1814, she was attacked by six or eight boats manned by English seamen and Canadian militia. Ohio and Somers were captured, but Porcupine escaped.

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