HMS Quorn (M41)
HMS Quorn in 2001
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 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Quorn |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Builder: | Vosper Thornycroft |
| Launched: | 23 January 1988 |
| Sponsored by: | Lady Rosemary Thompson |
| Commissioned: | 1989 |
| Identification: | Pennant number: M41 |
| Status: | in active service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel |
| Displacement: | 750 t (740 long tons; 830 short tons) |
| Length: | 60 m (196 ft 10 in) |
| Beam: | 9.8 m (32 ft 2 in) |
| Draught: | 2.2 m (7 ft 3 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shaft Napier Deltic diesel, 3,540 shp |
| Speed: | 17 kn (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
| Complement: | 45 (6 officers & 39 ratings) |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Sonar Type 2193 |
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HMS Quorn, the third ship of this name, is a Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 23 January 1988, the last ship of her class.
On Sunday 18 March 2007, she was presented with the Freedom of the Borough scroll in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.
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