HMAS Quiberon (G81)
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HMAS Quiberon was the name given to the former Royal Navy destroyer HMS Quiberon when she was transferred to the Australian navy. While in service she carried first the pennant number G81, then later F03'
[edit] History
Quiberon was a Q class destroyer laid down by J. Samuel White and Company Limited of Cowes on the Isle of Wight in England on 14 October 1940. She was launched on 31 January 1942 by Mrs. Tillard, wife of Rear Admiral S. D. Tillard, Flag Officer in Charge, Southampton, commissioned into the Royal Navy on 6 July 1942.
She was on laon to the RAN during the war. after the war she was transferred to Australia and paid off on 15 May 1950, underwent conversion to a modern anti-submarine frigate at Cockatoo Island Dockyard and Garden Island Dockyard in Sydney and recommissioned on 18 December 1957.
Quiberon served in the Far East with the Commonwealth Strategic Reserve and as a unit of the Australian Fleet on the Australia Station. Quiberon paid off to reserve on 26 June 1964, was sold for scrap to the Fujita Salvage Company Limited of Osaka in Japan on 15 February 1972 and left Sydney under tow on 10 April 1972.
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