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July 1945: HMS QUADRANT approaching USS MISSOURI off Japan - USN, National Museum of Naval Aviation.
827. Guns at the ready in all directions, HMS QUADRANT is seen as a unit of the British Pacific Fleet approaching the battleship USS MISSSOURI to whom she will highline transfer a Royal Navy Admiral, with the carrier USS WASP [CV-18] being one of the ships in the distance.
It is three months before QUADRANT's transfer to the RAN, initially on loan, ikmmediately after the Pacific War's end.
Credited to the U.S. Navy, it is a fine wartime shot of the ship, one of eight Q Class destroyers that were built, five of which would see service with the Australian Navy. QUIBERON and QUICKMATCH were commissioned directly into the RAN on loan at the point of their completion in July and September 1942 respectively; QUADRANT, QUALITY and QUEENBOROUGH did not make the switch to the RAN until October 1945, after hostilities had ended.
As has been noted previously, between 1953 and 1957 four of the five RAN Q Class ships were converted to Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigates.
HMAS QUADRANT was the first to be converted, and the first paid off, being scrapped in Japan in 1963.
HMAS QUALITY, not converted, had been scrapped in 1958, but the remaining three Q Class ships survived until the early 1970s.
Photo: USN Official it is from an album compiled by RADM Joseph C. Clinton, the Executive Officer aboard USS WASP at the time, and held by the U.S. Navy's National Museum of Naval Aviation at Pensacola, Florida.The photograph appears in Wikipedia Commons and is listed as being in the public domain.
July 1945: HMS QUADRANT approaching USS MISSOURI off Japan - USN, National Museum of Naval Aviation.
827. Guns at the ready in all directions, HMS QUADRANT is seen as a unit of the British Pacific Fleet approaching the battleship USS MISSSOURI to whom she will highline transfer a Royal Navy Admiral, with the carrier USS WASP [CV-18] being one of the ships in the distance.
It is three months before QUADRANT's transfer to the RAN, initially on loan, ikmmediately after the Pacific War's end.
Credited to the U.S. Navy, it is a fine wartime shot of the ship, one of eight Q Class destroyers that were built, five of which would see service with the Australian Navy. QUIBERON and QUICKMATCH were commissioned directly into the RAN on loan at the point of their completion in July and September 1942 respectively; QUADRANT, QUALITY and QUEENBOROUGH did not make the switch to the RAN until October 1945, after hostilities had ended.
As has been noted previously, between 1953 and 1957 four of the five RAN Q Class ships were converted to Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigates.
HMAS QUADRANT was the first to be converted, and the first paid off, being scrapped in Japan in 1963.
HMAS QUALITY, not converted, had been scrapped in 1958, but the remaining three Q Class ships survived until the early 1970s.
Photo: USN Official it is from an album compiled by RADM Joseph C. Clinton, the Executive Officer aboard USS WASP at the time, and held by the U.S. Navy's National Museum of Naval Aviation at Pensacola, Florida.The photograph appears in Wikipedia Commons and is listed as being in the public domain.