HMAS Quadrant (G11)

HMS Quadrant in 1945
History
United Kingdom
Namesake:	The navigational instrument
Builder:	R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company Limited
Laid down:	24 September 1940
Launched:	28 February 1942
Commissioned:	26 November 1942
Decommissioned:	Late 1945
Honours and awards:	Battle honours: Arctic 1942–3 Okinawa 1945
Fate:	Transferred to RAN
History
Australia
Acquired:	October 1945
Commissioned:	18 October 1945
Decommissioned:	20 June 1947
Recommissioned:	16 July 1953
Decommissioned:	16 August 1957
Reclassified:	Anti-submarine frigate (1953)
Motto:	Seek and Smite
Fate:	Sold for scrap
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General characteristics (as launched)
Class and type:	Q-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,750 tons standard load 2,388 tons full load
Length:	358 ft 3 in (109.19 m) length overall 339 ft 6 in (103.48 m) between perpendiculars
Beam:	35 ft 8 in (10.87 m)
Propulsion:	2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers, Parsons geared turbines, 40,000 SHP, two propellers
Speed:	31.5 knots (58.3 km/h; 36.2 mph)
Complement:	220
Armament:	4 × single 4.7-inch QF Mark XI** guns 1 × quadruple 2-pounder "pom-pom" 6 × single 20 mm Oerlikon guns 2 × quadruple torpedo tube sets for 21-inch torpedoes 4 × depth charge throwers, up to 70 depth charges
General characteristics (post conversion)
Type:	Modified Type 15 frigate
Draught:	15.5 ft (4.7 m)
Range:	4,040 nautical miles (7,480 km; 4,650 mi) at 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Armament:	2 × 4-inch guns 2 × 40 mm Bofors cannons 2 × Squid anti-submarine mortars

HMAS Quadrant (G11/D11/F01), named for the navigational instrument, was a Q-class destroyer operated by the Royal Navy as HMS Quadrant (G67/D17) during World War II, and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) from 1945 to 1957. The ship was built during the early 1940s as one of the War Emergency Programme destroyers, and entered service in 1942.

During World War II, Quadrant served as a convoy escort in the Arctic, South Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, and operated with the British Eastern and British Pacific Fleets. At the war's end, the ship was decommissioned and transferred to the RAN, which operated her for two years before placing her in reserve. In 1950, the ship was docked for conversion into an anti-submarine frigate. Quadrant was recommissioned in 1953, and operated with the RAN until 1957, when she was paid off. The ship was sold for breaking in 1963.

Quadrant was built to the wartime Q class design; the third flotilla of War Emergency Programme destroyers. These ships had a displacement of 1,750 tons at standard load, and 2,388 tons at full load. The destroyer was 358 feet 3 inches (109.19 m) in length overall, 339 feet 6 inches (103.48 m) long between perpendiculars, and had a beam of 35 feet 8 inches (10.87 m). Propulsion was provided by two Admiralty 3-drum boilers connected to Parsons geared turbines; these provided 40,000 shaft horsepower to the destroyer's two propellers.Quadrant could reach speeds of 31.5 knots (58.3 km/h; 36.2 mph). The ship's company consisted of 220 officers and sailors.

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