| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Class | Q |
| Pennant | G 11 |
| Built by | Hawthorn Leslie & Co. (Hebburn-on-Tyne, U.K.) |
| Ordered | 2 Apr 1940 |
| Laid down | 24 Sep 1940 |
| Launched | 28 Feb 1942 |
| Commissioned | 26 Nov 1942 |
| End service | 18 Oct 1945 |
| Loss position | |
| History | Transferred to Australia and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on 18 October 1945. |
Commands listed for HMS Quadrant (G 11)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | Lt.Cdr. William Howard Farrington, RN | 13 Oct 1942 | 28 Aug 1944 |
| 2 | Lt.Cdr. Paul Cortis Hopkins, RN | 28 Aug 1944 | 18 Oct 1945 |
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Noteable events involving Quadrant include:
28 Jan 1943
HMS Quadrant (Lt.Cdr. W.H. Farrington, RN) picks up 10 survivors from the American merchant City of Flint that was torpedoed and sunk on 25 January 1943 by the German submarine U-575 about 300 nautical miles south of Flores, Azores in position 34º47'N, 31º10'W.
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