HMAS Quadrant (G11)

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Career Australia

Builder:	R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company Limited
Laid down:	24 September 1940
Launched:	28 February 1942
Acquired:	18 October 1945 Royal Australian Navy 15 February 1963Kinoshita and Company Limited
Commissioned:	26 November 1942 - Royal Navy 18 October 1945 - Royal Australian Navy
Out of service:	16 August 1957
Renamed:	HMS Quadrant - Royal Navy HMAS Quadrant - RAN
Reclassified:	16 July 1953 as a fast anti-submarine frigate
Struck:	15 February 1963
Status:	Scrapped
General Characteristics
Displacement:	1,692 tonnes
Length:	359 feet
Beam:
Speed:	36 knots
Complement:	176 sailors
Armament:	4x single 4.7 in QF Mark XII on mounting CP Mk.XVIII 1x quadruple 2 pdr "pom-pom" mounting Mk.VII AA 6 x single 20 mm Oerlikon AA (typically) 2x quadruple tubes for 21 in torpedoes Mk.IX

HMAS Quadrant (G11/F01) was a Q class destroyer laid down by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company Limited at Hebburn-on-Tyne in England on 24 September 1940, launched on 28 February 1942, commissioned in the Royal Navy on 26 November 1942, purchased by Australia and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy at Sydney on 18 October 1945, paid off into Reserve at Sydney on 20 June 1947, converted to a fast anti-submarine frigate at the Williamstown Naval Dockyard in Melbourne and recommissioned on 16 July 1953 under the command of Captain Stephen H. Beattie VC RN.

Quadrant escorted the Royal Yacht Gothic during the visit to Australia of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh in February 1954.

Quadrant paid of into Operational Reserve at Sydney on 16 August 1957 and was sold for scrap to the Japanese firm of Kinoshita and Company Limited on 15 February 1963.