Porcupine Construction Progress

When she was determined to be unseaworthy, she was set afire at Grand haven, MI and pushed out into Lake Michigan in an offshore breeze, only to return washed up at shore 3 days later. Her hull was then used three more years commercially as a barge. Part of the remains of the Porcupine are still detectable with a fish finder by the Spring Lake bridge near where Johnston Boilers used to be in about 12-15 foot of water. For a time after her sinking parts of her stuck out of the water and in the winter people ice skated around her. In 1913 sections of her were raised and sent on to Detroit for a museum exhibit for the War of 1812 Centennial museum exhibit. One local lady took some of her wood and made souvenir pen holders.