HMS Quail (1895)
HMS Quail at Halifax, Nova Scotia with the North America and West Indies Squadron
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| Name: | HMS Quail |
| Builder: | Laird Brothers, Birkenhead |
| Yard number: | 606 |
| Laid down: | 28 May 1895 |
| Launched: | 24 September 1895 |
| Completed: | June 1897 |
| Fate: | Sold for disposal, 23 July 1919 |
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| Class and type: | Quail-class destroyer |
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| Beam: | 21 ft 6 in (6.55 m) |
| Draught: | 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) |
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| Speed: | 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
| Range: | 1,615 nmi (2,991 km; 1,859 mi) at 11 kn (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement: | 63 |
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HMS Quail was a B-class torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was launched by Laird Brothers, Birkenhead, on 24 September 1895. She served in home waters and the West Indies for several years, her robust structure proved by surviving at least one heavy collision. She served during the Great War, and was sold off after the hostilities end, on 23 July 1919. She gave her name to the four strong group of Quail-class destroyers.
HMS Quail was one of four 30-knot destroyers ordered from Laird's as part of the 1894–1895 Royal Navy shipbuilding programme. As with other early Royal Navy destroyers, the detailed design of Quail was left to the builder, with the Admiralty laying down only broad requirements. In order to meet the contract speed of 30 knots (35 mph; 56 km/h) Quail was powered by two four-cylinder triple expansion steam engines, fed by four Normand boilers, rated at 6,300 ihp (4,700 kW), and was fitted with four funnels. She carried the specified armament for the thirty-knotters of a QF 12 pounder 12 cwt (3 in (76 mm) calibre) gun on a platform on the ship's conning tower (in practice the platform was also used as the ship's bridge), with a secondary armament of five 6-pounder guns, and two 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes.
Quail was laid down as Yard No 606 on 28 May 1895, and was launched on 24 September 1895. She reached a speed of 30.385 knots (34.966 mph; 56.273 km/h) over a measured mile and an average speed of 30.039 knots (55.632 km/h; 34.568 mph) over three hours during trials on 11 December 1896.Quail commissioned in June 1897.
Newly commissioned, Quail took part in the naval review off Spithead on 26 June 1897 to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. In service, Quail proved to be a strongly-built ship, and a good seaboat, although, like other Laird-built 30-knot destroyers, manoeuvrability was poor, with a wide turning circle.
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