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|Ship fate=Sold for [[ship breaking|scrap]], December 1947
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|Ship complement=145
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*2 × quadruple [[Vickers .50 machine gun|{{convert|0.5|in|mm|adj=on|1}} machine guns]]
*2 × quadruple [[British 21-inch torpedo|21-inch (533&nbsp;mm)]] [[torpedo tubes]]
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'''HMS ''Foxhound''''' was one of nine [[E and F-class destroyer|F-class]] [[destroyer]]s built for the [[Royal Navy]] in the mid-1930s. Although she was assigned to the [[Home Fleet]], the ship was detached as part of the [[Mediterranean Fleet]] to enforce the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides during the [[Spanish Civil War]] of 1936–39. Several weeks after the start of the [[Second World War]] in September 1939, ''Foxhound'' helped to sink a German [[submarine]] and participated in the [[Second Battle of Narvik]] during the [[Norwegian Campaign]] of April–June 1940. The ship was sent to [[Gibraltar]] in mid-1940 and formed part of [[Force H]] where she participated in the [[attack on Mers-el-Kébir]]. ''Foxhound'' escorted the [[aircraft carrier]]s of Force H as they flew off aircraft for [[Malta]] and covered [[Malta Convoys|convoys resupplying and reinforcing the island]] until late 1941. During this time the ship helped to sink another German submarine.

In December, she was briefly transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet where she escorted several convoys to Malta from the Eastern Mediterranean. ''Foxhound'' was transferred to the [[Eastern Fleet]] in early 1942 and was then assigned to convoy escort duties off [[South Africa]] and then in [[West Africa]] until mid-1943 when she was converted into an [[escort destroyer]]. When the conversion was completed in early 1944, the ship was transferred to the [[Royal Canadian Navy]] and renamed HMCS ''Qu'Appelle''. She was assigned escort duties in the [[Western Approaches]] for several months before the ship was transferred to the [[English Channel]] to protect convoys during the [[Normandy landings]]. ''Qu'Appelle'' engaged German surface ships several times before she was sent to [[Iceland]] for more convoy escort work in October. The ship received a lengthy refit in [[Canada]] at the end of the year that was not completed until mid-1945. ''Qu'Appelle'' then ferried Canadian troops back to Canada for several months before she became a [[training ship]]. She was placed in [[Reserve fleet|reserve]] in mid-1946 and was sold for [[ship breaking|scrap]] at the end of 1947.

==Description==
The F-class ships were repeats of the preceding [[E and F-class destroyer|E-class]]. They displaced {{convert|1405|LT|t}} at [[Displacement (ship)|standard]] load and {{convert|1940|LT|t}} at [[deep load]]. The ships had an [[length overall|overall length]] of {{convert|329|ft|m|1}}, a [[beam (nautical)|beam]] of {{convert|33|ft|3|in|m|1}} and a [[draft (hull)|draught]] of {{convert|12|ft|6|in|m|1}}.<ref name=l6/> They were powered by two [[John Brown & Company|Brown-Curtis]] geared [[steam turbine]]s, each driving one [[propeller shaft]], using steam provided by three [[Admiralty three-drum boiler]]s. The turbines developed a total of {{convert|36000|shp|lk=in}} and gave a maximum speed of {{convert|35.5|kn|lk=in}}. ''Foxhound'' barely exceeded her designed speed during her [[sea trial]]s.<ref>March, p. 296</ref> She carried a maximum of {{convert|470|LT|t}} of [[fuel oil]] that gave her a range of {{convert|6350|nmi|lk=in}} at {{convert|15|kn}}. The ships' complement was 145 officers and [[Naval rating|ratings]].<ref name=l6>Lenton, p. 158</ref>

The ships mounted four [[4.7 inch QF Mark XII|4.7-inch (120&nbsp;mm) Mark IX guns]] in single mounts, designated 'A', 'B', 'X', and 'Y' in sequence from front to rear. For [[Anti-aircraft warfare|anti-aircraft]] (AA) defence, they had two quadruple mounts for the [[Vickers .50 machine gun|0.5&nbsp;inch Vickers Mark III]] [[machine gun]]. The F class was fitted with two above-water quadruple [[torpedo tube]] mounts for [[British 21 inch torpedo|{{convert|21|in|adj=on|0}}]] torpedoes.<ref>Whitley, p. 103</ref> One [[depth charge]] rack and two throwers were fitted; 20 depth charges were originally carried, but this increased to 35 shortly after the Second World War began.<ref>English, p. 141</ref>

===Wartime modifications===
By October 1940, ''Foxhound'' had her rear torpedo tube mount replaced by a [[QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun|12-pounder]] [[AA gun]]. While the ship was under repair in late 1941, her existing [[List of British ordnance terms#DCT|director-control tower]] and [[Rangefinding telemeter|rangefinder]] above the [[bridge (nautical)|bridge]] was replaced by a new [[director (military)|director]] with a [[Type 285 radar|Type 285]] gunnery [[radar]] mounted on its roof. These fed target data to the new Fuze-Keeping Clock, an analogue [[Ship gun fire-control system|fire-control system]] that calculated the gunnery information for the guns. The ship also received a [[HF/DF]] [[radio direction finder]] at the top of her [[foremast]]. Her short-range AA armament was augmented by two [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|{{convert|20|mm|1|abbr=on}} Oerlikon]] guns on the wings of the ship's bridge, a pair on the enlarged [[searchlight]] platform and, probably, another pair were added on the [[quarterdeck]].<ref>Friedman, pp. 240–41</ref>

When she was converted into an escort destroyer in late 1943, 'B' gun was replaced by a [[Hedgehog (weapon)|Hedgehog]] anti-submarine [[spigot mortar]] and stowage was increased for a total of 70 depth charges which meant that 'Y' gun and the 12-pounder AA gun had to be removed to compensate for the weight. A [[Type 271 radar|Type 271]] target-indication radar replaced the director. It is likely that the Vickers guns were replaced by the Oerlikons from the quarterdeck at this time.<ref name=mb3/>

==Construction and career==
''Foxhound'', the seventh ship of that name in the Royal Navy,<ref>Colledge, p. 133</ref> was [[laid down]] by John Brown & Company at their [[Clydebank]] [[shipyard]] on 15 August 1933. She was [[Ship naming and launching|launched]] on 12 October 1934 and completed on 21 June 1935. The ship cost 247,234 [[Pound sterling|pounds]], excluding government-furnished equipment like the armament. ''Foxhound'' was initially assigned to the [[6th Destroyer Flotilla]] (DF) of the [[Home Fleet]], but often detached to the Mediterranean Fleet to enforce the arms embargo imposed on both sides in the Spanish Civil War by the [[Non-Intervention Committee]]. Between November 1936 and 13 February 1937, the ship was based in Gibraltar except for a brief refit at [[Sheerness Dockyard]] in January. She patrolled the Spanish ports on the [[Bay of Biscay]] in May–June and August–October before returning home for a refit at [[Chatham Dockyard]] from 27 October to 30 December. During her service in northern Spanish waters, ''Foxhound'' was accidentally engaged and straddled by the [[Francoist Spain|Spanish nationalist]] minelayer ''[[Júpiter-class minelayer|Jupiter]]'' while on station off [[Gijón|Gijon]] in August.<ref>Foreign Office (1937), p. 545</ref> She then returned to the Mediterranean to patrol the area between Gibraltar and [[Oran]], [[French Algeria]] from January to March 1938. On 22 September, the ship collided with the submarine {{HMS|Seahorse|98S|2}}, damaging one of her propellers. She was repaired at Sheerness from 10 November to 12 December. ''Foxhound'' remained in home waters for the rest of 1938–39. The 6th DF was renumbered the [[8th Destroyer Flotilla]] in April 1939, five months before the start of World War II.<ref>English, pp. 75–76, 85</ref>

In September 1939, ''Foxhound'' was assigned to the Home Fleet and based at [[Scapa Flow]]. In the first month of hostilities she was part of an anti-submarine hunting group centred on the [[aircraft carrier]] {{HMS|Ark Royal|91|2}}. On 14 September, the carrier was unsuccessfully attacked by the {{GS|U-39|1938|6}}. ''Foxhound'', in company with her sisters {{HMS|Faulknor|H62|2}} and {{HMS|Firedrake|H79|2}}, counter-attacked and sank ''U-39'' north-west of [[Ireland]].<ref name=e5>English, p. 85</ref> In February 1940, she was one of the escorts for [[Convoy TC 3]] carrying troops from Canada to the UK.<ref>Smith, p. 35</ref> Later that month the ship rescued the survivors of the torpedoed [[freighter (ship)|freighter]] {{SS|Orania}} on 11 February.<ref name=e5/>

[[File:UK-NWE-Norway-2.jpg|left|thumb|A map of the Ofotfjord]]
During the Second Battle of Narvik, ''Foxhound'' and the destroyers {{HMS|Icarus|D03|2}} and {{HMS|Hero|H99|2}} streamed their TSDS [[Naval mine#Mine sweeping|minesweeping]] gear in advance of the battleship {{HMS|Warspite|03|2}} and her escort as they steamed up the [[Vestfjorden (Norway)|Vestfjord]] to engage the remaining German destroyers on 13 April. The ship and four other British destroyers pursued the remaining German ships into the [[Rombaksfjorden]] (the easternmost branch of the [[Ofotfjord]]), east of Narvik, where the lack of ammunition had forced the German ships to retreat. During the battle, ''Foxhound'' rescued two officers and nine ratings from the destroyer {{ship|German destroyer|Z12 Erich Giese||2}}.<ref>Haar 2009, pp. 357–58, 362–5</ref> During May, she escorted troop convoys to [[Iceland]] as they [[Invasion of Iceland|occupied the island]].<ref name=e5/> In early June, the ship was escorting the [[battlecruiser]] {{HMS|Repulse|1916|2}} and two cruisers as they searched for illusory German commerce raiders off Iceland; they were recalled to Norwegian waters on 9 June after the Germans launched [[Operation Juno]], an attack on the Allied convoys evacuating Norway, but the Germans had already returned to base by the time the ships arrived.<ref>Haarr 2010, p. 348; Rohwer, p. 25</ref> Later, ''Foxhound'' escorted ''Ark Royal'' and the battlecruiser {{HMS|Hood|51|2}}, together with her sisters ''Faulknor'' and {{HMS|Fearless|H67|2}} and the destroyer {{HMS|Escapade|H17|2}}, from Scapa Flow to Gibraltar where they would form Force H.<ref>Rohwer, p. 29</ref>

===Force H, 1940–41===
On the morning of 3 July, she ferried [[Captain (Royal Navy)|Captain]] [[Cedric Holland]], the emissary of Admiral [[James Somerville]], commander of Force H, to meet with Admiral [[Marcel-Bruno Gensoul]], commander of the Vichy French forces at [[Mers-el-Kébir]], [[Algeria]]. Holland was to deliver an ultimatum regarding the disposition of the French ships there to ensure that they could not fall into the hands of the Germans. Gensoul initially refused to meet with such a low-ranking envoy, but later relented and negotiations were underway that afternoon to disarm the French ships in place when the [[List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom|British Prime Minister]], [[Winston Churchill]], ordered the talks terminated to forestall the impending arrival of French reinforcements. The British opened fire a half-hour later,<ref>Lasterle, pp. 840–43</ref> including ''Foxhound''. A month later the ship escorted Force H during [[Operation Hurry]], a mission to fly off [[fighter aircraft]] for [[Malta]] and conduct an airstrike on [[Cagliari]] on 2 August.<ref>Rohwer, pp. 31, 34</ref> Shortly afterwards, she escorted ''Hood'' back home and began a refit at Sheerness that lasted until October.<ref>English, p. 85; Smith, pp. 63–64</ref>

''Foxhound'' then returned to Gibraltar and escorted the aircraft carriers {{HMS|Argus|I49|2}} and ''Ark Royal'' during [[Operation Coat|Operations Coat]] and [[Operation White|White]] in November.<ref>Rohwer, pp. 47, 49</ref> In between sorties into the Mediterranean, the ship escorted convoys between Gibraltar and West Africa.<ref name=e5/> In early January 1941, she was involved in [[Operation Excess]].<ref>Smith, p. 78</ref> On 31 January, Force H, including ''Foxhound'', departed Gibraltar to carry out [[Operation Picket]], an unsuccessful night torpedo attack by eight of ''Ark Royal''{{'}}s [[Fairey Swordfish]] on the [[Tirso Dam]] in [[Sardinia]]. The British ships returned to Gibraltar on 4 February and began preparing for [[Operation Grog]], a naval bombardment of [[Genoa]], that was successfully carried out five days later.<ref>Admiralty Historical Section, pp. 48–53</ref> On 7 April, ''Foxhound'' was escorting [[Convoy WS 7]] off the coast of [[Sierra Leone]], West Africa, when she rescued three seamen. They were survivors from the [[cargo liner]] {{SS|Umona||2}}, which had been sunk a week earlier.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/844.html |title=Umona |last=Helgason |first=Guðmundur |work=Ships hit by U-boats |publisher=Guðmundur Helgason |access-date=20 January 2016}}</ref> In mid-May, she participated in [[Operation Splice]], another mission in which the carriers ''Ark Royal'' and {{HMS|Furious|47|2}} flew off fighters for Malta.<ref>Smith, p. 96</ref>

Force H was ordered to join the escort of [[Convoy WS 8B]] in the [[North Atlantic]] on 24 May, a day after the [[Battle of the Denmark Strait]], but they were directed to search for the {{ship|German battleship|Bismarck}} and the [[heavy cruiser]] {{ship|German cruiser|Prinz Eugen||2}} on the 25th. Heavy seas increased fuel consumption for all of the escorts and ''Foxhound'' was forced to return to Gibraltar to refuel later that day before rejoining the [[capital ship]]s of Force H on the 29th, after ''Bismarck'' had been [[Last battle of the battleship Bismarck|tracked down and sunk]]. The destroyer screened another flying-off mission to Malta on 14 June; two days later, after German [[blockade runner]]s reached France, Force H [[sortie]]d into the Atlantic on a failed search for more blockade runners. Together with her sisters ''Faulknor'', ''Fearless'', {{HMS|Forester|H74|2}} and {{HMS|Foresight|H68|2}}, ''Foxhound'' helped to sink the {{GS|U-138|1940|6}} on 18 June. Four days later, the 8th DF was tasked to intercept a German supply ship spotted heading towards the French coast. The next day they intercepted {{MV|Alstertor}} which was scuttled by her crew upon the approach of the British ships. They rescued 78 British POWs taken from ships sunk by German raiders and the crew. In late June, ''Foxhound'' screened ''Ark Royal'' and ''Furious'' as they flew off more fighters for Malta in [[Operation Railway]].<ref>Smith, pp. 97, 99–100, 102–03, 106</ref>

During [[Operation Substance#Battle of 23 July|Operation Substance]], ''Firedrake'' and ''Foxhound'' were each leading a column of the convoy, streaming their TSDS minesweeps, through the [[Sicilian Narrows]] on 23 July when an Italian bomb near missed ''Firedrake'' and disabled her so that she had to be towed back to Gibraltar. The bulk of the convoy reached Malta the next day before the escorts rejoined Force H.<ref>Admiralty Historical Section, pp. 147–48</ref> A week later she screened the capital ships of Force H as they covered another Malta convoy ([[Operation Style]]).<ref>Rohwer, p. 89</ref> ''Foxhound'' returned to the UK in August for a refit that lasted until November. The ship was briefly assigned to Escort Group EG.3 in the North Atlantic for convoy escort duties later that month until she was transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet in late December.<ref>Admiralty Historical Section, pp. 232–33; English, p. 85; Rohwer, pp. 117, 126</ref>

===1942–1946===
''Foxhound'' screened the light cruisers of Force B and the freighter {{HMS|Glengyle||2}} of [[Convoy MF 2]] from [[Alexandria]], Egypt, to Malta in early January 1942. A week later, she escorted the cruisers covering [[Convoy MF 3]] to Malta and was detached to escort the freighter {{MV|Thermopylae}} to [[Benghazi]], [[Libya]], after she developed engine trouble on 18 January. En route the freighter was sunk by German aircraft and ''Foxhound'' arrived back at Alexandria on 20 January. By 29 March, the ship had been transferred to the Eastern Fleet and was assigned to the fast ships of Force A as Somerville organised his forces in anticipation of the [[Indian Ocean raid|Japanese invasion of the Indian Ocean]].<ref>Rohwer, pp. 133, 136, 154</ref> Shortly afterwards she was transferred to South Africa and the [[2nd Destroyer Flotilla]] to escort convoys. ''Foxhound'' was then transferred to [[4th Destroyer Flotilla]] at [[Freetown]], Sierra Leone, in May–July 1943.<ref name=e5/>

[[File:HMS Foxhound forward guns IWM A 18772.jpg|thumb|left|The ship's forward 4.7-inch guns, Freetown, 1943]]
''Foxhound'' was converted to an escort destroyer from August 1943 and she was transferred to Canada on completion on 8 February 1944. The ship was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy that same day as HMCS ''Qu'Appelle''.<ref name="mb3">MacPherson & Barrie, p. 53</ref> After [[Glossary of nautical terms (M-Z)#W|working up]] at the [[HMS Western Isles|Anti-Submarine Training School]] at [[Tobermory, Mull|Tobermory]] on the [[Isle of Mull]], she was assigned to the Western Approaches Command. Initially ''Qu'Appelle'' was a part of the [[6th Escort Group]] based at [[Londonderry Port]], but she was transferred to the [[12th Escort Group]] in May where she later patrolled the western entrance to the English Channel after the [[Normandy landings]] to protect shipping from German attacks.<ref name=e5/>

Together with the destroyers [[HMCS Saskatchewan (H70)|''Saskatchewan'']], [[HMCS Skeena (D59)|''Skeena'']], and [[HMCS Restigouche (H00)|''Restigouche'']], ''Qu'Appelle'' attacked three German [[patrol boats]] off [[Brest, France|Brest]] on the [[Battle of Pierres Noires|night of 5–6 July]], with the German patrol boat ''V715'' being sunk and ''Qu'Appelle'' lightly damaged. On 11 August, the ship, ''Restigouche'', ''Skeena'' and the destroyer [[HMCS Assiniboine (I18)|''Assiniboine'']] intercepted a small convoy south of Brest. While they sank two [[naval trawler]]s, ''Qu'Appelle'' was accidentally [[naval ram|rammed]] by ''Skeena'' during the engagement and was under repair until 5 September. The following month she joined the 11th Escort Group for patrols off Iceland until the end of November. The ship arrived at [[Halifax Regional Municipality|Halifax]] on 29 November to begin a refit at [[Pictou]], Nova Scotia, that lasted from 5 December to 30 June 1945.<ref name=mb3/><ref>English, p. 86; Rohwer, pp. 340, 347, 400</ref>

''Qu'Appelle'' made four trips to the UK to ferry Canadian troops back to Canada by 25 September. The ship then became a stationary training ship for the Torpedo School at Halifax. She was placed in reserve on 27 May 1946 and then sold to German and Milne for scrap in December 1947.<ref>English, p. 86</ref>{{refn|Macpherson and Barrie differ significantly from English in their account of the late history of the ship. They say that the refit ended on 31 March 1945 and ''Qu'Appelle'' made her trooping voyages between August and October. By their account she became a training ship on 11 October and was removed from service in January 1946.<ref name=mb3/>|group=Note}}

==Notes==
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