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Circa 1947: HMAS QUICKMATCH off Cairns in the post-WWII years - RAN/ AWM.
2647. One of the few photographs we've seen of the RAN's five 'Q' Class destroyers in the immediate postwar years. From the end of WWII to the conversion of four of the five ships to Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigates from the early 1950s, their records seem almost a blank.
The RAN Seapower Centre's heritage webpage for the ships says 'simply:
'... In the early postwar years QUICKMATCH remained in sea-going service in Australian waters, interspersed with several tours of duty in Japanese and Korean waters.
In july 1948 she returned to Sydney after three months as the Australian squadron representative in Japan and was placed in immobilised commission. She paid off on 15 May, 1950...'
This is incredibly sparse coverage of those three years, 1945-1948, really, in comparison to the usually detailed accounts of ship movements and activities.
The same applies in this period for HMASs QUEENBOROUGH, QUADRANT and QUALITY, although details for HMAS QUIBERON's movements at the time are somewhat more expansive.
In any event, the photograph above appears to have been taken in Trinity Inlet at Cairns.
Photo: Naval Historical Collection, Australian War memorial, image ID. NO. 301274. Listed as copyright expired, public domain. The photograph appears in the Topmill Pty Ltd book 'Australian Warships and Auxiliaries of the 1940s' compiled by Jonathan Nally [Topmill, Sydney 2010] p72; also in Vic Cassells's book 'For Those in Peril...' [Kangaroo Press. Sydney 1995] p205. The photo also appears in the RAN Heritage Collection, image ID No. 03116, but is mis-captioned there as HMAS QUIBERON.
Circa 1947: HMAS QUICKMATCH off Cairns in the post-WWII years - RAN/ AWM.
2647. One of the few photographs we've seen of the RAN's five 'Q' Class destroyers in the immediate postwar years. From the end of WWII to the conversion of four of the five ships to Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigates from the early 1950s, their records seem almost a blank.
The RAN Seapower Centre's heritage webpage for the ships says 'simply:
'... In the early postwar years QUICKMATCH remained in sea-going service in Australian waters, interspersed with several tours of duty in Japanese and Korean waters.
In july 1948 she returned to Sydney after three months as the Australian squadron representative in Japan and was placed in immobilised commission. She paid off on 15 May, 1950...'
This is incredibly sparse coverage of those three years, 1945-1948, really, in comparison to the usually detailed accounts of ship movements and activities.
The same applies in this period for HMASs QUEENBOROUGH, QUADRANT and QUALITY, although details for HMAS QUIBERON's movements at the time are somewhat more expansive.
In any event, the photograph above appears to have been taken in Trinity Inlet at Cairns.
Photo: Naval Historical Collection, Australian War memorial, image ID. NO. 301274. Listed as copyright expired, public domain. The photograph appears in the Topmill Pty Ltd book 'Australian Warships and Auxiliaries of the 1940s' compiled by Jonathan Nally [Topmill, Sydney 2010] p72; also in Vic Cassells's book 'For Those in Peril...' [Kangaroo Press. Sydney 1995] p205. The photo also appears in the RAN Heritage Collection, image ID No. 03116, but is mis-captioned there as HMAS QUIBERON.