HMS Quentin (G78)

Career (United Kingdom)
Name:	HMS Quentin (G78)
Builder:	J. Samuel White and Company
Laid down:	25 September 1940
Launched:	5 November 1941
Commissioned:	15 April 1942
Fate:	Torpedoed, 2 December 1942
General characteristics
Class & type:	Q-class destroyer

HMS Quentin (G78) 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. Quentin attacked and sank the enemy German submarine U-162 while in company with the destroyers Vimy and Pathfinder in the Caribbean near Trinidad on 3 September 1942. Quentin was torpedoed by German aircraft and sank off North Africa on 2 December 1942, only hours after her participation on the successful battle of Skerki Bank.

References

• Raven, Alan; Roberts, John (1978). War Built Destroyers O to Z Classes. London: Bivouac Books. ISBN 0-85680-010-4. 
• Whitley, M. J. (1988). Destroyers of World War 2. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-326-1.