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Oct 29-30, 1946; HMAS QUIBERON on Port Phillip Bay - A.C. Green [1878-1954]. SALV.
6164. An image dated the day following the preceding image, they are so similar we find it hard to believe they are not taken at the same time, and that there is some mistake in the record. Men are passing through a B deck hatch here, the ensign on the stern has picked up a breeze, and the photographer's boat has moved marginally. Otherwise the images are close to identical. However, we value all images of these past ships, particularly clear images of the 'Q' Class in their destroyer configuration, as these are not plentiful.
As we have mentioned a number of times, QUIBERON - one of the two 'Q' Class with QUICKMATCH actually commissioned on loan into the RAN during WWII - distinguished herself during the Allied landings in Algiers in Nov. 1942, when she participated in the sinking of the Italian submarine DESSIE and the attack on an Italian convoy escorted by three destroyers, in addition to rescuing the rescuing of the crew of a downed Fulmar aircraft, and picking up 182 survivors of sister ship HMS QUENTIN when she was sunk during a torpedo bombing attack on Nov. 28.
Photo: Allan C. Green [1878-1954], Green Collection, State Library of Victoria [La Trobe Library], accession NO. H91.108/1095, publicly released.
Oct 29-30, 1946; HMAS QUIBERON on Port Phillip Bay - A.C. Green [1878-1954]. SALV.
6164. An image dated the day following the preceding image, they are so similar we find it hard to believe they are not taken at the same time, and that there is some mistake in the record. Men are passing through a B deck hatch here, the ensign on the stern has picked up a breeze, and the photographer's boat has moved marginally. Otherwise the images are close to identical. However, we value all images of these past ships, particularly clear images of the 'Q' Class in their destroyer configuration, as these are not plentiful.
As we have mentioned a number of times, QUIBERON - one of the two 'Q' Class with QUICKMATCH actually commissioned on loan into the RAN during WWII - distinguished herself during the Allied landings in Algiers in Nov. 1942, when she participated in the sinking of the Italian submarine DESSIE and the attack on an Italian convoy escorted by three destroyers, in addition to rescuing the rescuing of the crew of a downed Fulmar aircraft, and picking up 182 survivors of sister ship HMS QUENTIN when she was sunk during a torpedo bombing attack on Nov. 28.
Photo: Allan C. Green [1878-1954], Green Collection, State Library of Victoria [La Trobe Library], accession NO. H91.108/1095, publicly released.