For other ships of the same name, see HMS Foxhound.
HMS Foxhound (H69) | |
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![]() Foxhound in December 1942 | |
Career (United Kingdom) | |
Name: | HMS Foxhound (H69) |
Laid down: | 21 August 1933 |
Launched: | 12 October 1934 |
Commissioned: | 6 June 1935 |
Decommissioned: | 8 February 1944 |
Fate: | Transferred to Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Qu'Appelle (H69). |
General characteristics | |
Class & 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.
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.
References[]
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- Friedman, Norman (2009). British Destroyers From Earliest Days to the Second World War. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-081-8.
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- Whitley, M. J. (1988). Destroyers of World War 2. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-326-1.
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