HMAS Quadrant
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HMAS Quadrant (G11/D11/F01), named for the navigational instrument,[2] was a Q-class destroyer operated by the Royal Navy as HMS Quadrant (G67/D17) during World War II, and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) from 1945 to 1957. The ship was built during the early 1940s as one of the War Emergency Programme destroyers, and entered service in 1942.
HMS Quadrant in 1945 | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
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 |
Decommissioned | Late 1945 |
Honours and awards | |
Fate | Transferred to RAN |
Australia | |
Acquired | October 1945 |
Commissioned | 18 October 1945 |
Decommissioned | 20 June 1947 |
Recommissioned | 16 July 1953 |
Decommissioned | 16 August 1957 |
Reclassified | Anti-submarine frigate (1953) |
Motto | "Seek and Smite" |
Fate | Sold for scrap |
Badge | |
General characteristics (as launched) | |
Class and type | Q-class destroyer |
Displacement |
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Length |
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Beam | 35 ft 8 in (10.87 m) |
Propulsion | 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers, Parsons geared turbines, 40,000 SHP, two propellers |
Speed | 31.5 knots (58.3 km/h; 36.2 mph) |
Complement | 220 |
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General characteristics (post conversion) | |
Type | Modified Type 15 frigate |
Draught | 15.5 ft (4.7 m) |
Range | 4,040 nautical miles (7,480 km; 4,650 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
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During World War II, Quadrant served as a convoy escort in the Arctic, South Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, and operated with the British Eastern and British Pacific Fleets. At the war's end, the ship was decommissioned and transferred to the RAN, which operated her for two years before placing her in reserve. In 1950, the ship was docked for conversion into an anti-submarine frigate. Quadrant was recommissioned in 1953, and operated with the RAN until 1957, when she was paid off. The ship was sold for breaking in 1963.