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 : G78Fate 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
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
Radar Type 290 air warning
Radar Type 285 ranging & bearing
Armament
HMS 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.
Service history
Quentin attacked and sank the German submarine U-162 Vimy Pathfinder Caribbean Sea near Trinidad on 3 September 1942. Quentin and the Australian destroyer HMAS Quiberon depth charged and sank the Italian submarine Dessiè Algeria on 28 November 1942. Quentin was torpedoed by German aircraft and sank off North Africa on 2 December 1942 with the loss of 20 men,[2] Battle of Skerki Bank .
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Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in December 1942
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 Other incidents
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