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*[[Battle of Okinawa|Okinawa]] 1945<ref name=Festberg>{{cite book |last=Festberg |first=Alfred N. |title=Heraldry in the Royal Australian Navy |publisher=Silverleaf Publishing |location=Melbourne, VIC |date=1981 |pages=56–7 |isbn=9780949746009}}</ref>
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          *[[Battle of Okinawa|Okinawa]] 1945<ref name=Festberg>{{cite book |last=Festberg |first=Alfred N. |title=Heraldry in the Royal Australian Navy |publisher=Silverleaf Publishing |location=Melbourne, VIC |date=1981 |pages=56–7 |isbn=9780949746009}}</ref>
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'''HMAS ''Quadrant'' (G11/D11/F01)''', named for the [[Quadrant (instrument)|navigational instrument]],<ref name=Cassells87/> was a [[Q and R-class destroyer|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.
'''HMAS ''Quadrant'' (G11/D11/F01)''', named for the [[Quadrant (instrument)|navigational instrument]],<ref name=Cassells87/> was a [[Q and R-class destroyer|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.


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HMAS Quadrant (G11/D11/F01), named for the navigational instrument,[1] 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.

Design and construction

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QuadrantTemplate:'s armament (at the end of World War II) consisted of four single 4.7-inch QF Mark XI** guns, a quadruple 2-pounder "pom-pom", six single 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns, and two quadruple torpedo tube sets for Script error: No such module "convert". torpedoes.[1] The ship was also fitted with four depth charge throwers, with up to 70 depth charges carried.[1]

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Quadrant in 1944, while operating with the British Pacific Fleet

The destroyer was laid down by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company Limited at Hebburn-on-Tyne, England on 24 September 1940.[1] She was launched on 28 February 1942 by the wife of one of the shipyard's directors.[1] Quadrant was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 26 November 1942.[1]

Royal Navy service

During World War II, Quadrant served with the British Eastern and British Pacific Fleets.[3]

Quadrant was engaged in convoy escort duties in the Arctic, South Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. She took part in the North African landings, aircraft carrier strikes against Surabaya and bombardment of the Nicobar Islands. She served with the British Pacific Fleet in 1945 where she took part in operations against Formosa (Taiwan), Okinawa, and the Japanese home islands.[3]

Transfer to RAN

Quadrant was loaned to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in exchange for the return of one of the N-class destroyers. Quadrant commissioned into the RAN on 18 October 1945, and was used to transport soldiers from New Guinea home to Australia.[2] On 16 August 1947, the destroyer was paid off into reserve.[4]

Frigate conversion

On 15 February 1950, the heavy cruiser Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". departed Sydney for Melbourne with Quadrant in tow.[3] The vessels arrived at Melbourne on 18 February.[3] Conversion of Quadrant to a fast anti-submarine frigate began at the Williamstown Naval Dockyard in Melbourne during April 1950.[2]

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HMAS Quadrant in 1953, after conversion into a frigate

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During the conversion; all of QuadrantTemplate:'s previous armament was stripped off, and replaced with two 4-inch guns, two 40 mm Bofors cannon, and two Squids (ahead throwing anti-submarine weapons).[3] The conversion was completed in mid 1953, and the ship recommissioned into the RAN on 16 July.[4]

RAN service

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Decommissioning and fate

Quadrant paid off at Sydney on 16 August 1957 and was sold for scrap to the Japanese firm of Kinoshita and Company Limited on 15 February 1963.[3]

Citations

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