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Ca. 1945: QUEENBOROUGH leads 'Q' Class destroyers into Sydney - RAN.
3387. In service with Royal Navy in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and then with the Eastern Fleet's 7th Destroyer Flotilla based at Kilindini in Kenya, the Australian-comissioned 'Q' Class destroyers HMAS QUCKMATCH and HMAS QUIBERON did not visit Australia until late 1944.
QUICKMATCH underwent a refit in Melbourne and QUIBERON engaged in patrols off the Australian East Coast until both joined the British Pacific Fleet in April for the attack on Okinawa and push to Japan.
The above photograph appears to have been taken after the entire BPF 4th Flotilla of five 'Q' Class destroyers was transferred to the RAN on loan in in Sydney in October 1945. The group is led by HMAS QUEENBOROUGH acording to a caption in the RAN Archives. The other two ships are unidentified.
Photo: RAN Historical, it is held in the Heritage Collection, Image ID NO. 02837. It appears in Michael Wilson's 'Royal Australian Navy Profile No 2: Australian Submarines, Destroyers and Escorts' [Topmill, Sydney undated] p47.
A two-part COMPENDIUM of the Photostream's 60+ images of HMAS QUEENBOROUGH begins at Entry NO. 5435, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/6684005275/in/photostream
Ca. 1945: QUEENBOROUGH leads 'Q' Class destroyers into Sydney - RAN.
3387. In service with Royal Navy in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and then with the Eastern Fleet's 7th Destroyer Flotilla based at Kilindini in Kenya, the Australian-comissioned 'Q' Class destroyers HMAS QUCKMATCH and HMAS QUIBERON did not visit Australia until late 1944.
QUICKMATCH underwent a refit in Melbourne and QUIBERON engaged in patrols off the Australian East Coast until both joined the British Pacific Fleet in April for the attack on Okinawa and push to Japan.
The above photograph appears to have been taken after the entire BPF 4th Flotilla of five 'Q' Class destroyers was transferred to the RAN on loan in in Sydney in October 1945. The group is led by HMAS QUEENBOROUGH acording to a caption in the RAN Archives. The other two ships are unidentified.
Photo: RAN Historical, it is held in the Heritage Collection, Image ID NO. 02837. It appears in Michael Wilson's 'Royal Australian Navy Profile No 2: Australian Submarines, Destroyers and Escorts' [Topmill, Sydney undated] p47.
A two-part COMPENDIUM of the Photostream's 60+ images of HMAS QUEENBOROUGH begins at Entry NO. 5435, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/6684005275/in/photostream