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HMAS Quickmatch

HMAS Quickmatch SLV AllanGreen.jpg
HMAS Quickmatch in 1955
History
Australia
Namesake: The quick match, a fast burning match used for lighting cannon
Builder: J. Samuel White and Company
Laid down: 6 February 1941
Launched: 11 April 1942
Commissioned: 14 September 1942
Decommissioned: 15 May 1950
Recommissioned: 23 September 1955
Decommissioned: 26 April 1963
Reclassified: Anti-submarine frigate (1955)
Motto: "Swift to Strike"
Honours and
awards:
Fate: Used as barracks ship until 1972, when she was sold for scrap
General characteristics (as launched)
Class and type: Q-class destroyer
Displacement:
  • 1,750 tons standard
  • 2,420 tons deep load
Length:
Beam: 35 ft 8 in (10.87 m)
Propulsion: 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, Parsons Impulse turbines, 40,000 shp (30,000 kW)
Speed: 31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph)
Complement: 220
Armament:

HMAS Quickmatch (G92/D21/D292/F04) was a Q-class destroyer operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Although commissioned into the RAN in 1942, the ship was initially the property of the Royal Navy. Quickmatch served with both the British Eastern Fleet and British Pacific Fleet during World War II. In the 1950s, the destroyer was converted into an anti-submarine frigate. In 1957, Quickmatch operated in support of Malaya during the Malayan Emergency. The ship remained in service until 1963, and after use as an accommodation ship, was sold for scrap in 1972.

Quickmatch was one of eight Q-class destroyers constructed as a flotilla under the War Emergency Programme. She had a standard displacement of 1,750 tons, and a deep load displacement of 2,420 tons.Quickmatch was 358 feet 3 inches (109.19 m) long overall, and 339 feet 6 inches (103.48 m) long between perpendiculars, with a beam of 35 feet 8 inches (10.87 m). Propulsion was provided by two Admiralty 3-drum boilers connected to Parsons Impulse turbines, which generated 40,000 shaft horsepower (30,000 kW) for the propeller shafts.Quickmatch had a maximum speed of 31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph). The ship's company consisted of 220 officers and sailors.

The ship's main armament consisted of four QF 4.7 inch Mk IX guns in single turrets. This was supplemented by a quadruple 2-pounder pom-pom, and six 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns. Four depth-charge throwers were fitted, with a payload of 70 charges carried, and two quadruple 21-inch torpedo tube sets were fitted, although a maximum of eight torpedoes were carried.


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