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Name: QUALITY
Type: Destroyer
Keel: 10/10/1940
Launched: 06/10/1941
Completed: 07/09/1942
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Wallsend
Yard Number: 1603
Dimensions: 1692disp - 2411disp, 339.5 x 35.7 x 9.5(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Steam turbines, SR geared, Parsons type, 40000shp
Engines by: Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 36.0knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 4 x 1 x 4.7ins QF, 1 x 4 x 2pdr, 6 x 1 x 20mm AA guns; 2 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes;
4 x depth charge throwers, 2 x depth charge rails
History:
07/09/1942 British Royal Navy
08/10/1945 Royal Australian Navy
10/04/1958 Broken up
Comments: Member of the Q Class of destroyers
1950: Designated for conversion to an anti-submarine frigate
Delays to other conversions & cost over-runs, lead to cancellation of project
10/04/1958: Sold to Mitsubishi Co of Japan for breaking up at Tokyo


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