HMS Quail (G45)
Service
- as HMS Quail7 January 1943 — 15 November 1943312 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Quail
- Pennant / hull number
- G45
- Builder
- Hawthorn Leslie & Company, Hebburn
- Ordered
- 2 April 1940
- Laid down
- 30 September 1940
- Launched
- 1 June 1942
- Commissioned
- 7 January 1943
- Fate
- Damaged by a mine on 15 November 1943
Sunk under tow on 18 May 1944
By mine (1943) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,692 long tons (1,719 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,411 long tons (2,450 t)
- Length
- 109.12 m (358 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Draught
- 2.74 m (9 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 4,675 nmi (8,658 km)
- Complement
- 176
- Main gun
- 119 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Quail was a Q-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number G45. Hawthorn Leslie & Company, Hebburn laid her keel on 30 September 1940. Launched on 1 June 1942, she entered service on 7 January 1943.
Seven ships of the class were built. The class followed the O and P-class destroyer and was succeeded by the S and T-class destroyer.
She displaced 1,692 long tons standard and 2,411 long tons at full load. She measured 109.1 m (358 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 176. Her main battery was of 119 mm (4.7 in) calibre.
She was in commission for 312 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 15 November 1943 by mine, at 40°03′N 17°15′E. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 x Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers, Parsons geared steam turbines, 40000 shp on 2 shafts
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4.7 in Mk.XII (119 mm L/45) on 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 (2x4) tubes for 21 in torpedoes Mk.IX
- up to 3 x throwers & 3 x racks, to 45 depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Quail (G45) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 17782 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons