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ERIC HOGBEN COLLECTION 70: HMAS QUICKMATCH as a hostel ship at WND 1963-72.
5728. Paid off into reserve at Williamstown Naval Dockyard on April 30, 1963, the former WWII destroyer and subsequent Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate HMAS QUICKMATCH came into use there as accomodation for the crews of ships in refit or under construction - particularly the later Type 12 frigate HMAS SWAN [III] - laid down on Aug. 18, 1965 and commissioned on Jan. 20, 1970.
From one of two comments we have had, she doesn't seem to have been regarded as Five Star accomodation to put it mildly, and one can see that here.
We another another good pic of QUICKMATCH as an accomodation vessel, along with HMAS GASCOYNE at Williamstown - with PARRAMATTA [III] across the wharf - at Pic NO. 1262, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/4700056243/
QUICKMATCH was sold for scrapping by the Fujita Salvage Company at Moji Japan in 1972.
Photo: collection of the late Eric Hogben, courtesy Geoff Eastwood, Sydney.
ERIC HOGBEN COLLECTION 70: HMAS QUICKMATCH as a hostel ship at WND 1963-72.
5728. Paid off into reserve at Williamstown Naval Dockyard on April 30, 1963, the former WWII destroyer and subsequent Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate HMAS QUICKMATCH came into use there as accomodation for the crews of ships in refit or under construction - particularly the later Type 12 frigate HMAS SWAN [III] - laid down on Aug. 18, 1965 and commissioned on Jan. 20, 1970.
From one of two comments we have had, she doesn't seem to have been regarded as Five Star accomodation to put it mildly, and one can see that here.
We another another good pic of QUICKMATCH as an accomodation vessel, along with HMAS GASCOYNE at Williamstown - with PARRAMATTA [III] across the wharf - at Pic NO. 1262, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/4700056243/
QUICKMATCH was sold for scrapping by the Fujita Salvage Company at Moji Japan in 1972.
Photo: collection of the late Eric Hogben, courtesy Geoff Eastwood, Sydney.