Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Navy — Destroyer

HMS Quality

Q-class destroyer

HMS Quality
Allan C. Green 1878-1954 photographer. — This image is available from the Our Collections of the State Library of Victoria under the Accession Number: — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Quality (G62) underway in the Indian Ocean on 13 May 1944. Quality was transferred to Australia on 8 October 1945 but served only for 59 days.

Service

  1. Royal Navy as HMS Quality7 September 1942 — 8 October 19451,091 days of the war
  2. Royal Australian Navy as HMAS Quality28 November 1945 — 25 January 1946
Q-class destroyer Particulars
Name
HMS Quality
Builder
Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson's Limited
Laid down
10 October 1940
Launched
6 October 1941
Commissioned
7 September 1942
Decommissioned
8 October 1945
Fate
Sold for scrap 10 April 1958 (1958)
Status
Scrapped

Specifications

Displacement, standard
1,705 long tons (1,732 t)
Displacement, full load
2,424 long tons (2,463 t)
Length
109.12 m (358 ft) OA
Beam
10.67 m (35 ft)
Speed
31.5 knots (58.3 km/h, 36.2 mph)
Range
4,680 nmi (8,667 km)
Complement
189
Main gun
119 mm (4.7 in)

HMS Quality was a Q-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson's Limited laid her keel on 10 October 1940. She entered service on 7 September 1942, having been launched on 6 October 1941.

Her class ran to seven ships. The class followed the O and P-class destroyer and was succeeded by the S and T-class destroyer.

She displaced 1,705 long tons standard and 2,424 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 31.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 189. Her main battery was of 119 mm (4.7 in) calibre.

She served with the Royal Navy as HMS Quality until 8 October 1945. She then passed to the Royal Australian Navy, serving as HMAS Quality from 28 November 1945. She was in commission for 1,091 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 8 October 1945.

She was broken up for scrap on 10 April 1958.

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 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, Parsons Impulse turbines, 40000 shp
Armament
  • 4 × QF 4.7 inch Mk IX guns
  • 1 × quadruple 2-pounder pom-pom
  • 6 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns
  • 4 × depth charge throwers
  • 2 × quadruple 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tube sets

Sister ships

Sources

  • Facts harvested from HMS Quality on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
  • Photograph: Allan C. Green 1878-1954 photographer. — This image is available from the Our Collections of the State Library of Victoria under the Accession Number: — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons