HMS Foxhound (H69)

HMS Foxhound (H69) was an Interwar standard E and F-class destroyer that served the Royal Navy from 1935 to 1944.

She was laid down on 21 August 1933 at John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. Clydebank and launched on 12 October 1934. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 6 June 1935 with pennant number H69.

She was decommissioned by the RN on 8 February 1944 and transferred to Canada. She was commissioned into the RCN on that day as HMCS Qu'Appelle (H69) and was grouped under the RCN's River-class destroyer. She was decommissioned from the RCN on 27 May 1946.

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