fleet.wikisort.org - ShipHMS Quentin was a Q-class destroyer laid down by J. Samuel White and Company, Limited, at Cowes on the Isle of Wight on 25 September 1940, launched on 5 November 1941 and commissioned on 15 April 1942. She saw service during the Second World War before being sunk in 1942 by German aircraft off North Africa.
Destroyer of the Royal Navy
 HMS Quentin (G78) |
History |
United Kingdom |
Name | HMS Quentin |
Builder | J. Samuel White and Company |
Laid down | 25 September 1940 |
Launched | 5 November 1941 |
Commissioned | 15 April 1942 |
Identification | Pennant number: G78 |
Fate | Torpedoed, 2 December 1942 |
General characteristics Q class[1] |
Type | Destroyer |
Displacement |
- 1,692 long tons (1,719 t)
- 2,411 long tons (2,450 t) full load
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Length | 358.25 ft (109.2 m) o/a |
Beam | 35.75 ft (10.9 m) |
Draught | 9.5 ft (2.9 m) |
Propulsion | 2 × Admiralty three-drum boilers, Parsons geared steam turbines, 40,000 shp (30,000 kW) on 2 shafts |
Speed | 36 kn (67 km/h) |
Range | 4,675 nmi (8,658 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
Complement | 176 (225 as flotilla leader) |
Sensors and processing systems |
- Radar Type 290 air warning
- Radar Type 285 ranging & bearing
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Armament |
- 4 × QF 4.7 in (119 mm) Mk.IX guns, single mounts CP Mk.XVIII
- 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk.VIII (40 mm L/39), quad mount Mk.VII
- 6 × QF 20 mm Oerlikon, single mount P Mk.III
- 8 (2×4) tubes for 21 in (533 mm) torpedoes Mk.IX
- up to 3 × throwers & 3 × racks, to 45 depth charges
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Service history
Quentin attacked and sank the German submarine U-162 with the aid of destroyers Vimy and Pathfinder in the Caribbean Sea near Trinidad on 3 September 1942. Quentin and the Australian destroyer HMAS Quiberon depth charged and sank the Italian submarine Dessiè off Algeria on 28 November 1942. Quentin was torpedoed by German aircraft and sank off North Africa on 2 December 1942, only hours after participating in the Battle of Skerki Bank.
Notes
- British and Empire Warships of the Second World War, H. T. Lenton, Greenhill Books, ISBN 1-85367-277-7
References
- "Dessie Submarine 1937–1942". WreckSite.eu. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- English, John (2001). Obdurate to Daring: British Fleet Destroyers 1941–45. Windsor, UK: World Ship Society. ISBN 978-0-9560769-0-8.
- Friedman, Norman (2006). British Destroyers & Frigates: The Second World War and After. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-86176-137-6.
- Lenton, H. T. (1998). British & Empire Warships of the Second World War. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-048-7.
- Raven, Alan & Roberts, John (1978). War Built Destroyers O to Z Classes. London: Bivouac Books. ISBN 0-85680-010-4.
- Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two (Third Revised ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-119-2.
- Viglietti, Brian (2012). "Sinking of HMS Quentin". Warship International. XLIX (1): 29. ISSN 0043-0374.
- Whitley, M. J. (1988). Destroyers of World War 2. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-326-1.
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Q class | Royal Navy | |
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Royal Australian Navy | |
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R class | Royal Navy | |
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Other operators |
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Indian Navy |
- Rajput (ex-Rotherham)
- Rana (ex-Raider)
- Ranjit (ex-Redoubt)
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Royal Netherlands Navy | |
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Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in December 1942 |
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Shipwrecks |
- 1 Dec: HMAS Armidale
- 2 Dec: Lupo, HMS Quentin
- 3 Dec: Empire Dabchick, HMS Penylan
- 4 Dec: Muzio Attendolo, HMS Traveller
- 6 Dec: USS Grebe
- 7 Dec: Ceramic
- 8 Dec: U-254, U-611
- 9 Dec: I-3, HMS Marigold
- 11 Dec: HMS Blean
- 12 Dec: HMS P222, Teruzuki
- 14 Dec: Canberra Maru
- 15 Dec: U-626
- 16 Dec: USS S-49
- 17 Dec: HMS Firedrake
- 18 Dec: HMS Partridge, Tenryū
- 21 Dec: I-4
- 23 Dec: Sperrbrecher 138
- 25 Dec: HMS P48
- 26 Dec: U-357
- 27 Dec: U-336
- 28 Dec: Choyo Maru
- 29 Dec: USS Wasmuth
- 30 Dec: HMS Fidelity
- 31 Dec: HMS Achates, HMS Bramble, Friedrich Eckoldt, USS Rescuer
- Unknown date: HMS P311
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Other incidents |
- 9 Dec: HMS Porcupine
- 12 Dec: Empire Centaur, Tannenfels
- 14 Dec: HMS Argonaut
- 21 Dec: USS S-35
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1941  1942  1943 November 1942  January 1943 |
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