| Name: | QUEENBOROUGH |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 06/11/1940 |
| Launched: | 16/01/1942 |
| Completed: | 10/12/1942 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Wallsend |
| Yard Number: | 1605 |
| Dimensions: | 1702disp - 2424disp, 339.5 x 35.7 x 9.5(draft)ft; (1954: 2017disp, 15.5(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, 4 x 1 x 2pdr guns; 2 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes; |
| 4 x depth charge throwers, 2 x depth charge rails | |
| (1954: 1 x 2 x 4.0ins, 1 x 2 x 40mm guns; 1 x 3 x Limbo anti-submarine mortar) | |
| History: | |
| 10/12/1942 | British Royal Navy |
| 09/1945 | Royal Australian Navy |
| 08/04/1975 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Member of the Q Class of destroyers |
| 05/1950: Commenced conversion to an anti-submarine frigate by Cockatoo Dockyard | |
| 07/12/1954: Conversion as a Type 15 frigate completed & recommissioned | |
| 08/04/1975: Sold to Willtop (Asia) Ltd for breaking up | |
| 20/06/1975: Arrived at Hong Kong for breaking up |
Above photo shows original configuration. Photo courtesy of Photoship
Above photo shows original configuration. Photo courtesy of Photoship
Above photo shows post Type 15 conversion. Photo courtesy of Photoship
Above photo shows post Type 15 conversion. Photo courtesy of Photoship
Above photo courtesy of the Royal Australian Navy
Above: Being towed away for breaking up. Photo courtesy of the Royal Australian Navy