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1945: HMAS QUIBERON in her British Pacific Fleet paint scheme and hull number, D20. Photo RAN Historical.
5050. Also 1945, but an image possibly taken in Japan in the days or weeks after the surrender. HMAS QUIBERON wears her BPF "hull shortening" paint scheme for the last time, as with her D20 BPF pennant number.
Soon to become a member of the RAN's 10th Destroyer Flotilla, QUIBERON and her sister ship HMAS QUICKMATCH would return to Japan on Commonwealth Occupation Forces duties throughout the late 1940s.
Photo: RAN Historical, Navy Heritage Collection image NO. 03342.
1945: HMAS QUIBERON in her British Pacific Fleet paint scheme and hull number, D20. Photo RAN Historical.
5050. Also 1945, but an image possibly taken in Japan in the days or weeks after the surrender. HMAS QUIBERON wears her BPF "hull shortening" paint scheme for the last time, as with her D20 BPF pennant number.
Soon to become a member of the RAN's 10th Destroyer Flotilla, QUIBERON and her sister ship HMAS QUICKMATCH would return to Japan on Commonwealth Occupation Forces duties throughout the late 1940s.
Photo: RAN Historical, Navy Heritage Collection image NO. 03342.