Allied Warships

HMS Quality (G 62)

Destroyer of the Q class


Nice photograph showing HMS Quality as completed.

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassQ 
PennantG 62 
Built bySwan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. (Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.): Wallsend 
Ordered 
Laid down10 Oct 1940 
Launched6 Oct 1941 
Commissioned7 Sep 1942 
End service8 Oct 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryTransferred to the Royal Australian Navy on 8 October 1945.
Commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on 28 November 1945.
Sold for scrap on 10 April 1958 to to Mitsubishi Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan).

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Gilbert Lescombe Farnfield, DSO, RN
15 June 1942 – June 1944
DSC awarded on 30 October 1944

Lt.Cdr. Robert William Jocelyn, RN (aka the Viscount Jocelyn)
June 1944 – September 1945
Promoted to Cdr. on 30 June 1945

Lt.Cdr. Frank Maclear Graves, RN
September 1945 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 

Commands listed for HMS Quality (G 62)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt.Cdr. Gilbert Lescombe Farnfield, DSO, RN15 Jun 1942Jun 1944
2Lt.Cdr. Robert William Jocelyn, RNJun 1944Sep 1945
3Lt.Cdr. Frank Maclear Graves, RNSep 1945Oct 1945 ?

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