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{{short description|Destroyer of the Royal Navy}}
 
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| image              = HMS Quentin (G78) at anchor in Plymouth Sound, in 1942 (FL 9023).jpg
| image_caption            = HMS ''Quentin'' (G78)
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|section2={{Infobox ship/career
| hide_header              =
| country            = United Kingdom
| flag                = {{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|naval}}
| name                = HMS ''Quentin''
| owner              =
| namesake            =
| ordered            =
| builder            = [[J. Samuel White and Company]]
| laid_down          = 25 September 1940
| launched            = 5 November 1941
| acquired            =
| commissioned        = 15 April 1942
| decommissioned      =
| in_service          =
| out_of_service      =
| struck              =
| reinstated          =
|identification=[[Pennant number]]: G78
| honours            =
| fate                = Torpedoed, 2 December 1942
| notes              =
}}
 
|section3={{Infobox ship/characteristics
|hide_header=
|header_caption=Q class<ref name="lenton">''British and Empire Warships of the Second World War'', H. T. Lenton, Greenhill Books, {{ISBN|1-85367-277-7}}</ref>
|type= [[Destroyer]]
|displacement=*{{convert|1,692|LT|t|abbr=on}}
              *{{convert|2,411|LT|t|abbr=on}} full load
|length={{convert|358.25|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} [[Length overall|o/a]]
|beam={{convert|35.75|ft|m|1|abbr=on}}
|draught={{convert|9.5|ft|m|1|abbr=on}}
|propulsion=2 × [[Admiralty three-drum boiler]]s, [[Parsons Marine Steam Turbines|Parsons]] geared steam turbines, {{convert|40000|shp|abbr=on}} on 2 shafts
|speed={{convert|36|kn|km/h|abbr=on}}
|range={{convert|4675|nmi|km|abbr=on}} at {{convert|20|kn|km/h}}
|complement=176 (225 as [[flotilla leader]])
|sensors=*Radar Type 290 air warning
          *Radar Type 285 ranging & bearing
|EW=
|armament=* 4 × [[4.7 inch QF Mark IX|QF {{convert|4.7|in|mm|abbr=on|0}} Mk.IX guns]], single mounts CP Mk.XVIII
          * 4 × [[QF 2 pounder naval gun|QF 2 pdr Mk.VIII]] (40 mm L/39), quad mount Mk.VII
          * 6 × [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|QF 20&nbsp;mm Oerlikon]], single mount P Mk.III
          * 8 (2×4) tubes for [[British 21 inch torpedo|{{convert|21|inch|mm|abbr=on|0}} torpedoes Mk.IX]]
          * up to 3 × throwers & 3 × racks, to 45 [[depth charge]]s
|notes=
}}
}}
 
'''HMS ''Quentin''''' was a [[Q and R-class destroyer|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 [[World War II|Second World War]] before being sunk in 1942 by German aircraft off North Africa.
 
==Service history==
''Quentin'' attacked and sank the German [[submarine]] {{GS|U-162|1941|2}} with the aid of destroyers {{HMS|Vimy|D33|2}} and {{HMS|Pathfinder|G10|2}} in the [[Caribbean Sea]] near [[Trinidad]] on 3 September 1942. ''Quentin'' and the Australian destroyer {{HMAS|Quiberon|G81|6}} [[depth charge]]d and sank the Italian submarine  ''[[Italian submarine Dessiè|Dessiè]]'' off [[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,<ref>{{Cite web | title=QUENTIN DESTROYER 1942-1942 - WRECK WRAK EPAVE WRACK PECIO | url=https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?96517 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214161804/http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?96517 | access-date=2025-02-15 | archive-date=2013-12-14}}</ref> only hours after participating in the [[Battle of Skerki Bank]].
 
==Notes==
{{reflist}}
 
==References==
* {{cite web |url=http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?142208 |title=Dessie Submarine 1937–1942 |publisher=WreckSite.eu |access-date=8 December 2013}}
* {{Cite Colledge2006}}
* {{cite book|last=English|first=John|title=Obdurate to Daring: British Fleet Destroyers 1941–45|publisher=World Ship Society|location=Windsor, UK|year=2001|isbn=978-0-9560769-0-8}}
* {{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Norman|title=British Destroyers & Frigates: The Second World War and After|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|date=2006|isbn=1-86176-137-6|author-link=Norman Friedman}}
* {{cite book|last=Lenton|first=H. T.|author-link=Henry Trevor Lenton|title=British & Empire Warships of the Second World War|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|year=1998|isbn=1-55750-048-7}}
* {{cite book|last=Raven|first=Alan|last2=Roberts|first2=John |title=War Built Destroyers O to Z Classes|publisher=Bivouac Books|location=London|year=1978|isbn=0-85680-010-4|name-list-style=amp}}
* {{cite book|last=Rohwer|first=Jürgen|title=Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|year=2005|edition=Third Revised|isbn=1-59114-119-2|author-link=Jürgen Rohwer}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Viglietti|first1=Brian|title=Sinking of HMS ''Quentin''|journal=Warship International|date=2012|volume=XLIX|issue=1 |page=29|issn=0043-0374}}
* {{cite book|last=Whitley|first=M. J.|title=Destroyers of World War 2|publisher=Naval Institute Press|year=1988|isbn=0-87021-326-1|location=Annapolis, Maryland|author-link=Michael J. Whitley}}
 
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{{Q and R class destroyer}}
{{December 1942 shipwrecks}}
 
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[[Category:Q and R-class destroyers of the Royal Navy]]
[[Category:Ships built on the Isle of Wight]]
[[Category:1941 ships]]
[[Category:World War II destroyers of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Destroyers sunk by aircraft]]
[[Category:World War II shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in December 1942]]
[[Category:Ships sunk by German aircraft]]
 
 
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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

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