HMS Quadrant (G11)
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HMS Quadrant (G11) was a Q class destroyer laid down by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Limited, at Hebburn-on-Tyne in England on 24 September 1940, launched on 28 February 1942 and commissioned on 26 November 1942. She was manned by Australians but remained the property of the British Government. Quadrant was engaged in convoy escort duties in the Arctic, South Atlantic and Indian Ocean. She took part in the North African landings, aircraft carrier strikes against Surabaya and bombardment of the Nicobar Islands. She served with the British Pacific Fleet in 1945 where she took part in operations against Formosa (Taiwan), Okinawa and the Japanese home islands and served as a troop carrier from New Guinea to Australia. Quadrant was purchased by Australia and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy at Sydney on 18 October 1945 as HMAS Quadrant.
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