RAN · DD
Quiberon
Photos and infoQ-class destroyer with an Australian crew, on loan from Britain until 1950. She fought in the Mediterranean and with the British Pacific Fleet. She was not sunk. After the war she spent seven years becoming an anti-submarine frigate.
| Class | Q class |
|---|---|
| Type | Destroyer (DD) |
| Hull | G81 |
| Builder | J. Samuel White, Cowes |
| Launched | 1942-01-31 |
| Commissioned | 1942-07-06 |
| Fate | Afloat. Survived the war. Rebuilt as an anti-submarine frigate and recommissioned in 1957. Sold in 1972 and broken up in Japan. |
| Armament (class) | Q class. Four 4.7-inch guns and one funnel. |
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Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.
The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.
Claude Henry Parnall. Depth Charge Exercises. 20 January 1943, on Board the Destroyer HMS Quiberon, at Sea Off Mers-el-kebir. A14361.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The pictures on this page are the originals.
No color version yet. Colored pictures and film will be added here.
Command
Okinawa
1945-04-01 · in the screen of Task Force 57; not sunk
