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Sept. 23, 1955: QUICKMATCH steps out as a frigate - RAN.
625. Seen here in Port Phillip Bay, in her first years as a frigate, QUICKMATCH did repeated deployments with the Commonwealth Strategic Reserve in Asia. She spent three Christmases in a row in Hong Kong in the first years of the 1960s.
Photo: RAN Official, it appears in Ross Gillett's book 'Australian and New Zealand Warships Since 1946 [Child and Associates, Sydney 1988] p34.
Sept. 23, 1955: QUICKMATCH steps out as a frigate - RAN.
625. Seen here in Port Phillip Bay, in her first years as a frigate, QUICKMATCH did repeated deployments with the Commonwealth Strategic Reserve in Asia. She spent three Christmases in a row in Hong Kong in the first years of the 1960s.
Photo: RAN Official, it appears in Ross Gillett's book 'Australian and New Zealand Warships Since 1946 [Child and Associates, Sydney 1988] p34.