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Quickmatch

Class	Q class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	G92
Fate	Afloat. Q-class destroyer with an Australian crew. Survived the war.
Armament (class)	Q class. Four 4.7-inch guns and one funnel.
Command	Rhoades, Rodney Captain from 14 September 1942 Becher, Humphrey Otto Captain from March 1944

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.

HMAS Quickmatch (G92) was a Q-class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy. She went to sea with an Australian crew.

Rodney Rhoades became her captain on 14 September 1942. From that date the destroyer was under his command.

In March 1944 Humphrey Otto Becher took command. Quickmatch continued in service with Becher as captain from that month.

On 1 April 1945, at Okinawa, Quickmatch served in the screen of Task Force 57. She was still afloat when the day ended.

Quickmatch survived the war. The Q-class destroyer, manned by her Australian crew, was still in being when the fighting was over.

The pictures on this page are the originals.