HMS Foxhound (H69)
 Foxhound in December 1942 | |
| Career (United Kingdom) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Foxhound |
| Laid down: | 21 August 1933 |
| Launched: | 12 October 1934 |
| Commissioned: | 6 June 1935 |
| Decommissioned: | 8 February 1944 |
| Identification: | pennant number: H69 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Qu'Appelle (H69). |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | E and F-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,405 long tons (1,427.5 t) standard 1,940 long tons (1,971.1 t) deep |
| Length: | 329 ft (100.3 m) o/a |
| Beam: | 33.3 ft (10.1 m) |
| Draught: | 10.8 ft (3.3 m) |
| Propulsion: | 3 x Admiralty 3-drum water tube boilers, Parsons geared steam turbines, 38,000 shp on 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 35.5 kn (65.7 km/h), 31.5 kn (58.3 km/h) deep |
| Range: | 6,350 nmi (11,760 km) at 15 kn (27.8 km/h) 1,275 nmi (2,361 km) at 35.5 kn (65.7 km/h) |
| Complement: | 145 |
| Armament: |
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HMS Foxhound 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.
On 7 April Foxhound was escorting Convoy WS 7 off the coast of Sierra Leone, West Africa when she rescued three Lascar seamen.[1] They were survivors from the liner Umona, which had been sunk by torpedo a week earlier.[2]
The RN decommissioned Foxhound on 8 February 1944 and she was transferred to Canada. She was commissioned into the RCN on that day as HMCS Qu'Appelle and was grouped under the RCN's River-class destroyers. She was decommissioned from the RCN on 27 May 1946.
References
- ↑ "Edwin Clarke – His Story". Merchant Navy Unsung Heroes. Keystage Arts and Heritage Company. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
- ↑ Helgason, Guðmundur (1995–2013). "Umona". Ships hit by U-boats. Guðmundur Helgason. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
Bibliography
- English, John (1993). Amazon to Ivanhoe: British Standard Destroyers of the 1930s. Kendal, England: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-64-9.
- Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-081-8.
- Lenton, H. T. (1998). British & Commonwealth Warships of the Second World War. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-048-7.
- Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945: The Naval History of World War Two (Third Revised ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-119-2.
- Whitley, M. J. (1988). Destroyers of World War 2. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-326-1.
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