| Name: | QUAIL |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 27/09/1940 |
| Launched: | 01/06/1942 |
| Completed: | 07/01/1943 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 635 |
| Dimensions: | 1692disp - 2411disp, 339.5 x 35.8 x 9.5(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, SR geared, Parsons type, 40000shp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 36.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 1 x 4.7ins QF, 1 x 4 x 2pdr, 6 x 1 x 20mm guns; |
| 2 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes, depth charges | |
| History: | |
| 07/01/1943 | British Royal Navy |
| 18/06/1944 | Sank |
| Comments: | Member of the Q Class of destroyers |
| 15/11/1943: Mined whilst on patrol in the Adriatic. | |
| 16/11/1943: Beached to await salvage | |
| 12/1943: Towed to Bari for temporary repairs | |
| 04/1944: Towed to Taranto | |
| 18/06/1944: Sank in the Gulf of Taranto whilst under tow to Malta |
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