HMS Quentin (G78)

Casualty List

Navy: Royal Navy
Type: Destroyer
Class: Q Class
Pennant: G 78 
Built by: J. S. White & Co. (Cowes, U.K.) 
Laid down: 25 Sep, 1940 
Launched: 5 Nov, 1941 
Commissioned: 15 Apr, 1942 
Complement: 176
Lost: 2 Dec, 1942 Sunk by 2 torpedoes from Italian Torpedo aircraft, Western Mediterranean 40 miles N. of Cape Bon, Tunisia 
 
History: 3 Sep, 1942
The German submarine U-162 was sunk in the Caribbean Sea near Trinidad, in position (c 12.21'N, 59.29'W), by depth charges from the British destroyers HMS Vimy, HMS Pathfinder and HMS Quentin.

28 Nov, 1942
The Italian Annaba, Algeria by the British destroyer HMS Quentin and the Australian destroyer HMAS Quiberon.

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