HMAS Quiberon (G81)

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HMAS Quiberon in 1945

HMS Quiberon (G81) (later HMAS Quiberon (G81/F03)) was a Q-class destroyer laid down by J. Samuel White and Company, Limited, at Cowes on the Isle of Wight on 14 October 1940, launched on 31 January 1942 by Mrs. Tillard, wife of Rear Admiral S. D. Tillard, Flag Officer in Charge, Southampton and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on 6 July 1942. She was named after the Battle of Quiberon Bay, which occurred in 1759.

Quiberon first served on North Atlantic convoy escort duty, supported the Allied landings in North Africa in October 1942, attacked and sank the enemy Italian submarine Dessiè off the Algerian coast on 28 November 1942, operated in North African waters on convoy and fleet escort duties, served on convoy escort duties in the Indian Ocean, took part in the carrier air strikes against Sabang in April 1944 and Surabaya in May 1944, took part in a series of fleet bombardments of the Japanese held Nicobar Islands in October 1944, took part in operations in support of the American seizure of Okinawa and attacks on the Japanese home islands, and served on occupation duties in Japan following the cessation of hostilities.

Quiberon paid off in 1950 for conversion to an anti-submarine frigate at Cockatoo Island Dockyard and Garden Island Dockyard in Sydney. She was recommissioned on 18 December 1957. Quiberon served in the Far East with the Commonwealth Strategic Reserve and as a unit of the Australian Fleet on the Australia Station.

Quiberon paid off to reserve on 26 June 1964, was sold for scrap to the Fujita Salvage Company Limited of Osaka in Japan on 15 February 1972 and left Sydney under tow on 10 April 1972.

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Seapower Centre - Australia HMAS Quiberon ship history

[edit] See also

v • d • e Q and R class destroyers

Q class	Quadrant - Quail - Quality - Queenborough - Quentin - Quiberon - Quickmatch - Quilliam

R class	Racehorse - Raider - Rapid - Redoubt - Relentless - Rocket - Roebuck - Rotherham

List of destroyer classes of the Royal Navy