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Allied Warships

HMS Quadrant (G 11)

Destroyer of the Q class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassQ 
PennantG 11 
Built byHawthorn Leslie & Co. (Hebburn-on-Tyne, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down24 Sep, 1940 
Launched28 Feb, 1942 
Commissioned26 Nov, 1942 
End service18 Oct, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryTransferred to Australia and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on 18 October 1945.
Decomissioned into reserve on 16 August 1957.
Sold to the Japanese frim Kinoshita & Co. Ltd. to be broken up for scrap on 15 February 1963.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. William Howard, RN
13 October 1942 – 28 August 1944

Lt.Cdr. Paul Cortis Hopkins, RN
28 August 1944 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List. 


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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