{{short description|Destroyer of the Royal Navy}} {{other ships|HNLMS Banckert{{!}}HNLMS ''Banckert''}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}} {{Use British English|date=January 2017}} {{Infobox ship |section1={{Infobox ship/image |image=HMS Quilliam FL1378.jpg |image_caption= }}
|section2={{Infobox ship/career |hide_header= |country=United Kingdom |flag={{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|naval}} |name=HMS ''Quilliam'' |namesake=Lieutenant John Quilliam |ordered= |builder=R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Limited |original_cost= |laid_down=19 August 1940 |launched=29 November 1941 |commissioned=22 October 1942 |decommissioned=21 November 1945 |motto= |nickname= |honours= |identification= Pennant number G09 |fate=Transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy |badge= }}
|section3={{Infobox ship/career |hide_header=title |country=Netherlands |flag={{shipboxflag|Netherlands|naval}} |name=HNLMS ''Banckert'' |namesake= |acquired=21 November 1945 |commissioned= |decommissioned=April 1952 |struck=19 October 1956 |homeport= |identification=D801 |motto= |nickname= |honours= |fate=Sold for scrap in 1957 |badge= }}
|section4={{Infobox ship/characteristics |hide_header= |header_caption= |class=Q-class destroyer |displacement= |length= |beam= |draught= |propulsion= |speed= |range= |endurance= |boats= |complement= |sensors= |EW= |armament= |notes= }} }} '''HMS ''Quilliam'' (G09)''' was a Q-class destroyer serving in the Royal Navy from 1942 to 1945. She was then transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy, where she was commissioned as HNLMS ''Banckert'' (D801) from until 1957.
==Construction== The ship was laid down by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Limited, at Hebburn-on-Tyne on 19 August 1940, launched on 29 November 1941 and commissioned on 22 October 1942.
She was named after Manx Lieutenant (later Captain) John Quilliam RN, First Lieutenant of {{HMS|Victory}} at the Battle of Trafalgar.
==Operational history==
===Royal Navy=== ''Quilliam'' was involved in wartime operations in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
On 20 May 1945, while taking part in Operation Iceberg (the Invasion of Okinawa), ''Quilliam'' was involved in a collision with the British aircraft carrier {{HMS|Indomitable|92|2}}, which left the destroyer with a heavily damaged bow.<ref>{{cite web|title="ICEBERG" Task Force 57 – British Pacific Fleet|url=http://pacific.valka.cz/forces/tf57.htm|accessdate=11 June 2012}}</ref><ref name=Weaver124/> She was out of service for repairs when World War II ended.
===Royal Netherlands Navy=== ''Quilliam'' was one of six Q-class destroyers to survive World War II. While five were transferred to the Royal Australian Navy, ''Quilliam'' was instead transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy on 21 November 1945.<ref name=Weaver124>Trevor Weaver (1994). ''Q class Destroyers and Frigates of the Royal Australian Navy'', p. 124.</ref> The ship was renamed HNLMS ''Banckert'', and received the pennant number D801.<ref name=Weaver124/> The ship was refitted to Dutch standards and had a new bow fitted before she entered service in the Netherlands East Indies.<ref name=Weaver124/>
On 11 December 1946 ''Banckert'' encountered HNLMS ''Karel Doorman'' at Tandjong Priok, during this encounter the commander of ''Banckert'' visited the Dutch escort carrier.<ref>{{cite web |author=<!-- not stated --> |date= |title=Deel 11 |url=http://www.vlaggeschipsmaldeel5.nl/html/deel_11_.html |website=VlaggeschipSmaldeel5.nl |language=Dutch}}</ref>
thumb|left|HMS ''Quilliam'' as HNLMS ''Banckert''
''Banckert'' saw action during the Indonesian National Revolution. Between 10 and 12 May 1947, the ship intercepted the British coastal merchant ship ''NR. 4 Nanmei'', which was supplying contraband to Indonesians in Tapanoeli Bay, and fired on Indonesian coastal defences in Sibolga.<ref name=Weaver124/> She was involved in the Dutch occupation of Tegal on 26 July by providing a landing party.<ref name=Weaver124/> After carrying out patrols during the Dutch 'police counteractions',<!-- scare quotes in original... I can't work out what is more appropriate --> ''Banckert'' returned to the Netherlands in August 1948 for a refit, which lasted until 19 September 1949.<ref name=Weaver124/> The destroyer arrived at the Soerabaja naval base on 25 December 1949, and was stationed there until 9 December 1950, when she was assigned to Netherlands New Guinea.<ref name=Weaver124/> ''Banckert'' left Southeast Asia for the Netherlands on 20 August 1951.<ref name=Weaver124/>
On her return, ''Banckert'' was assigned to the naval base at Den Helder as part of the RNLN's European Training Squadron.<ref name=Weaver124/>
==Decommissioning and fate== ''Banckert'' was paid off in April 1952. She was struck from records on 19 October 1956, and was sold to Jos de Smedt of Antwerp for scrapping on 1 February 1957.<ref name=Weaver124/>
==Notes== {{reflist}}
==References== * {{Colledge: Ships RN|year=2006}} * {{cite book|last=English|first=John|title=Obdurate to Daring: British Fleet Destroyers 1941–45|publisher=World Ship Society|location=Windsor, UK|year=2001|isbn=978-0-9560769-0-8}} * {{cite book|last=Friedman|first=Norman|title=British Destroyers & Frigates: The Second World War and After|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|date=2006|isbn=1-86176-137-6|author-link=Norman Friedman}} * {{cite book|last=Lenton|first=H. T.|authorlink=Henry Trevor Lenton|title=British & Empire Warships of the Second World War|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|year=1998|isbn=1-55750-048-7}} * {{cite book|last=Raven|first=Alan|last2=Roberts|first2=John |title=War Built Destroyers O to Z Classes|publisher=Bivouac Books|location=London|year=1978|isbn=0-85680-010-4|name-list-style=amp}} * {{cite book|last=Rohwer|first=Jürgen|title=Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|year=2005|edition=Third Revised|isbn=1-59114-119-2|author-link=Jürgen Rohwer}} * {{cite book|last=Whitley|first=M. J.|title=Destroyers of World War 2|publisher=Naval Institute Press|year=1988|isbn=0-87021-326-1|location=Annapolis, Maryland|author-link=Michael J. Whitley}} * {{cite book|last=W.H.E.|first=van Amstel|title=De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine vanaf 1945|year=1991|publisher=De Alk|location=Alkmaar|isbn=9060139976}}
==External links== {{Commons category|HMS Quilliam (G09)}} {{Commons category|D801 Hr.Ms. Banckert (ship, 1942)}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20071006081844/http://www.hmsquilliam.co.uk/ Website about HMS ''Quillam'']
{{Q and R class destroyer}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Quilliam (G09)}} Category:Q and R-class destroyers of the Royal Navy Category:1941 ships Category:World War II destroyers of the United Kingdom Category:Q-class destroyers of the Royal Netherlands Navy Category:Ships built by Hawthorn Leslie