HMAS Queenborough (G30)

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HMAS Queenborough (G30/F02) was a Q-class destroyer that had built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Limited at Wallsend-on-Tyne in England and commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Queenborough on 10 December 1942.

Duringt he war she was a RN ship but manned by Australian personnel and at the end of the war she bought by Australian and was commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on 29 October 1945. On 20 May 1949, she was placed in reserve while being converted to a fast anti-submarine frigate at Cockatoo Island Dockyard in Sydney. She was recommissioned on 7 December 1954. Queenborough served with the 1st Frigate Squadron and undertook six deployments to the Far East between 1956 and 1963. She paid off to the control of the General Manager, Williamstown Dockyard on 10 July 1963, and recommissioned on 28 July 1966 as a training ship. Queenborough was paid off for the last time on 7 April 1972, was sold for scrap to Willtop (Asia) through the agents Banks Brothers and Streets at Sydney on 8 April 1975 and broken up in Hong Kong.