 USS Porcupine (IX-126)

USS "Porcupine" (IX-126), an "Armadillo"-class tanker (aka Z-ET1-S-C3 class Liberty Ship Tanker) designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the porcupine.A station tanker, her keel was laid down 11 October 1943 as SS "Leif Ericson" (MCE Hull 1930) by the Delta Shipbuilding Corporation in New Orleans, Louisiana.