HMS Quorn (M41)
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 HMS Quorn (M41) |
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Name: | HMS Quorn (M41) |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Builder: | Vosper Thornycroft |
| Launched: | 23 January 1988 |
| Sponsored by: | Lady Rosemary Thompson |
| Commissioned: | 1989 |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2012[update] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Hunt class MCMV |
| Displacement: | 750 tons |
| Length: | 60 m |
| Beam: | 9.8 m |
| Draught: | 2.2 m |
| Propulsion: | 2 shaft Napier Deltic diesel, 3,540 shp |
| Speed: | 17 knots |
| Complement: | 45 (6 officers & 39 ratings) |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Sonar Type 2193 |
| Armament: |
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| Notes: | Mine counter measures equipment: SeaFox Mine Disposal System MS 14 Magnetic loop Sperry MSSA Acoustic generator K8 Oropesa sweeps Pennant = M41 |
HMS Quorn (M41), the third ship of this name, is a Hunt-class minesweeper 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.[1]
[edit] Affiliations
- Ipswich, Suffolk[2]
- Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
- Quorn, Leicestershire
- The Quorn Hunt
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