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HMAS Quiberon (G 81)

Destroyer of the Q class

NavyThe Royal Australian Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassQ 
PennantG 81 
Built byJ.S. White & Co. (Cowes, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down14 Oct, 1940 
Launched31 Jan, 1942 
Commissioned6 Jul, 1942 
End service26 Jun, 1964 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned to reserve on 26 June 1964.
Sold to be broken up for scrap on 15 February 1972 to the Fujita Salvage Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

Commanding Officers:
Cdr. Hugh Waters Shelley Browning, OBE, RN
Promoted to Capt. on 31 December 1942
14 April 1942 - 21 January 1943

Cdr. George Scott Stewart, RAN
21 January 1943 - 14 July 1944

Cdr. Wilfred Hastings Harrington, DSO, RAN
14 July 1944 - 16 February 1945

Lt.Cdr. George Frederick Edmund Knox, RAN
16 February 1945 - still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 

Former nameHMS Quiberon

Noteable events involving Quiberon include:

28 Nov, 1942
The Italian submarine Dessiè was sunk off Annaba, Algeria by the British destroyer HMS Quentin (Lt.Cdr. A.H.P. Noble, RN) and the Australian destroyer HMAS Quiberon (Cdr. H.W.S. Browning, OBE, RN).

6 Jul, 1943
The Canadian merchant Jasper Park is torpedoed and sunk south-south-west of Cap Sainte Marie, Madagascar in position 32º52'S, 42º15'E by the German submarine U-177. Later the Australian destroyers HMAS Quiberon (Cdr. G.S. Stewart, RAN) and HMAS Quickmatch (Lt.Cdr. R. Rhoades, DSC, RAN) together pick up 51 survivors.


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