| Name: | QUADRANT |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 20/09/1940 |
| Launched: | 28/02/1942 |
| Completed: | 26/11/1942 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 634 |
| Dimensions: | 1692disp - 2411disp, 339.5 x 35.8 x 9.5(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, SR geared, Parsons type, 40000shp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 36.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 4 x 1 x 4.7ins QF, 1 x 4 x 2pdr AA, 6 x 1 x 20mm AA guns; |
| 2 x 4 x 21.0ins torpedoes; depth charges | |
| History: | |
| 28/11/1942 | British Royal Navy |
| 18/10/1945 | Royal Australian Navy |
| 07/01/1963 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Member of the Q Class of destroyers |
| 18/10/1945: Commenced long-term loan to the Royal Australian Navy | |
| 04/1950: Commenced conversion into a fast anti-submarine frigate | |
| Conversion carried out by Williamstown Naval Dockyard, Melbourne | |
| Armament then 2 x 4.0ins, 2 x 40mm Bofors guns; 2 × Squid anti-submarine mortars | |
| 16/07/1953: Returned to service with RAN | |
| 07/01/1963: Sold for breaking up by Kinoshita & Co Ltd, Japan |
Above photo is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo is courtesy of Photoship
Stripped for conversion. Above photo is copyright of the RAN Heritage Collection
After conversion to a fast frigate. Above photo is courtesy of Photoship
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