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SEPT. 1942: The starboard side of HMAS QUICKMATCH - James Henry Cleet FRPS [1876-1959].
3385. The ice floe camouflage is not so white on the starboard side of the new WWII 'Q' Class destroyer HMAS QUICKMATCH. But it is still somehow striking,
The 1,705 - 2500 ton [full load] destroyer was commissioned directly into the RAN on loan from manning purposes on her completion.
She and HMAS QUIBERON, however, carried out virtually their entire war service as units of the British Fleet.
Photo: Original James Henry Cleet FRPS [1876-1959] of South Shields UK, an official RN/British Ministry of Defence photographer. In respect for the almost startling clarity Mr Cleet routinely achieved with his ships photograpohs, we explain this is a scan of a postcard - that is, several times removed from the original negative or plate. The postcard from the HMAS CERBERUS Museum is in the author's collection. The photo is also held in the Naval Historical Collection, Australian War Memorial ID No 301270, also 044787 where it is listed copyright expired, public domain. It also appeared in Jonathan Nally's 'Australian Warships and Auxiliaries of the 1940s' [Topmill, Sydney] p71.
SEPT. 1942: The starboard side of HMAS QUICKMATCH - James Henry Cleet FRPS [1876-1959].
3385. The ice floe camouflage is not so white on the starboard side of the new WWII 'Q' Class destroyer HMAS QUICKMATCH. But it is still somehow striking,
The 1,705 - 2500 ton [full load] destroyer was commissioned directly into the RAN on loan from manning purposes on her completion.
She and HMAS QUIBERON, however, carried out virtually their entire war service as units of the British Fleet.
Photo: Original James Henry Cleet FRPS [1876-1959] of South Shields UK, an official RN/British Ministry of Defence photographer. In respect for the almost startling clarity Mr Cleet routinely achieved with his ships photograpohs, we explain this is a scan of a postcard - that is, several times removed from the original negative or plate. The postcard from the HMAS CERBERUS Museum is in the author's collection. The photo is also held in the Naval Historical Collection, Australian War Memorial ID No 301270, also 044787 where it is listed copyright expired, public domain. It also appeared in Jonathan Nally's 'Australian Warships and Auxiliaries of the 1940s' [Topmill, Sydney] p71.