HMAS Quadrant (G11)
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.jpg/300px-HMAS_Quadrant_(AWM_301196).jpg) HMAS Quadrant in 1953 |
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| Career (Royal Australian Navy) |  |
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| Namesake: | The navigational instrument |
| Builder: | R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company Limited |
| Laid down: | 24 September 1940 |
| Launched: | 28 February 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 26 November 1942 |
| Out of service: | Late 1945 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Royal Australian Navy |
| Badge: |  |
| Career (Royal Australian Navy) | |
| Acquired: | October 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 18 October 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 20 June 1947 |
| Recommissioned: | 16 July 1953 |
| Decommissioned: | 16 August 1957 |
| Reclassified: | Anti-submarine frigate (1953) |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,692 tonnes |
| Length: | 359 ft (109 m) |
| 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), named for the navigational instrument, 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, and commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Quadrant on 26 November 1942.
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[edit] Operational History
[edit] Royal Navy service
During World War II, Quadrant served with the British Eastern and British Pacific Fleets.[1]
Quadrant was engaged in convoy escort duties in the Arctic, South Atlantic and Indian Ocean. She took part in the North African landings, aircraft carrier strikes against Surabaya and bombardment of the Nicobar Islands. She served with the British Pacific Fleet in 1945 where she took part in operations against Formosa (Taiwan), Okinawa, and the Japanese home islands, and served as a troop carrier from New Guinea to Australia.[1]
[edit] RAN service
- 1945
Quadrant was loaned to the Royal Australian Navy in exchange for the return of one of the N class destroyers. Quadrant commissioned into the RAN 18 October 1945, but paid off into Reserve on 20 June 1947. She was then put under the command of Acting Lieutenant Commander William F. Cook.[1]
- 1950
On 15 February 1950 the heavy cruiser HMAS Australia departed Sydney for Melbourne with Quadrant in tow. The vessels arrived at Melbourne on 18 February. She was converted to a fast anti-submarine frigate at the Williamstown Naval Dockyard in Melbourne on June 1950 and recommissioned on 16 July 1953.[1]
- 1954-1957
After recommissioning, Quadrant's service was mainly in Australian waters. 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.[1] Quadrant visited New Guinea, Manus and New Britain in October 1954, New Zealand in March 1955, and spent a period on exercises in Far East waters in June 1955. In March 1956 she took part in exercises in Malayan waters.[1] During June 1956 she served for a period as a surveillance vessel with the Japanese pearling fleet in the Arafura Sea. In October 1956 she again proceeded to the Far East for further exercises, visiting Hong Kong, Singapore and Manila.[1] 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.[1]
[edit] Armament
- Destroyer
She had four 4.7-inch guns, four Vickers Armstrongs 2 pounder guns, six 20mm Oerlikon cannons, two were later replaced by 40mm Bofors cannons, and it had eight 21-inch torpedo tubes.[1]
- Frigate
She had two 4-inch guns, two 40mm Bofors cannons, and two Squids (ahead throwing anti-submarine weapons).[1]
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