| 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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