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ERIC HOGBEN COLLECTION 71. HMAS QUADRANT and a two-tone FJ Holden ca.1953.
5729. Newly converted Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate HMAS QUADRANT is opening her short service with the First Frigate Squadron. We're not certain at what roadside wharf this image is taken - but it appears nbot to be at Williamstown Naval Dockyard [see comment below]see where the former WWII Royal Navy destroyer was converted between Feb. 1950 and her re-commissioning on July 16, 1953. In 1957, under refit in Sydney, her hull and engines were determined to be largely worn out and she was paid off on Aug. 16 that year, having steamed only 113,000 additional miles as a frigate -a situation on that would have had to call the whole cost and effort of her conversion into question.
QUICKMATCH, by comparison, re-commissioned on Sept 23, 1955, and paid off on April 26, 1963, giving 7-1/2 years additional service, and steaming a further 247,000 miles.
While the mileage figures as frigates are not separated out for all ships in our sources, the additional service and mileages for HMAS QUEENBOROUGH and QUIBERON seem to be similar to QUICKMATCH.
The car beside the dock here is a two-tone FJ Holden - one of the classic Australian-made cars - and must be very new. They were produced from 1953 to 1956.
Photo: collection of the late Eric Hogben, courtesy Geoff Eastwood, Sydney.
ERIC HOGBEN COLLECTION 71. HMAS QUADRANT and a two-tone FJ Holden ca.1953.
5729. Newly converted Type 15 fast anti-submarine frigate HMAS QUADRANT is opening her short service with the First Frigate Squadron. We're not certain at what roadside wharf this image is taken - but it appears nbot to be at Williamstown Naval Dockyard [see comment below]see where the former WWII Royal Navy destroyer was converted between Feb. 1950 and her re-commissioning on July 16, 1953. In 1957, under refit in Sydney, her hull and engines were determined to be largely worn out and she was paid off on Aug. 16 that year, having steamed only 113,000 additional miles as a frigate -a situation on that would have had to call the whole cost and effort of her conversion into question.
QUICKMATCH, by comparison, re-commissioned on Sept 23, 1955, and paid off on April 26, 1963, giving 7-1/2 years additional service, and steaming a further 247,000 miles.
While the mileage figures as frigates are not separated out for all ships in our sources, the additional service and mileages for HMAS QUEENBOROUGH and QUIBERON seem to be similar to QUICKMATCH.
The car beside the dock here is a two-tone FJ Holden - one of the classic Australian-made cars - and must be very new. They were produced from 1953 to 1956.
Photo: collection of the late Eric Hogben, courtesy Geoff Eastwood, Sydney.