Allied Warships

HMS Queenborough (G 70)

Destroyer of the Q class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassQ 
PennantG 70 
Built bySwan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. (Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.): Wallsend 
Ordered 
Laid down6 Nov 1940 
Launched16 Jan 1942 
Commissioned10 Dec 1942 
End service29 Oct 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Transferred to Australia and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on 29 October 1945.
Decommissioned on 7 April 1972.
Sold to be broken up for scrap on 8 April 1975 to Willtopp (Asia) Ltd.

Commanding Officers:
Cdr. Eric Perceval Hilton, MVO, DSO and Bar, RN
29 July 1942 – September 1944

Cdr. Philip Lionel Saumarez, DSC and Bar, RN
September 1944 – still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List

 

Commands listed for HMS Queenborough (G 70)

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CommanderFromTo
1Cdr. Eric Percival Hinton, DSO, RN29 Jul 1942Sep 1944
2Cdr. Philip Lionel Saumarez, DSC, RNSep 1944Oct 1945 ?

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