Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War
Royal Navy — Destroyer

HMAS Queenborough

Q-class destroyer

HMAS Queenborough
Australian armed forces — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons Plate AWM Caption: c1954-03. Aerial port bow view of the former destroyer HMAS Queenborough (F02) after her conversion to an anti submarine frigate. Externally her destroyer origins are indicated only by her funnel and hull as all superstructure above the upper deck has been replaced. The ship's new armament consists of a twin 40 mm Bofors mark 5 AA mounting forward and 4 inch mark 16 guns in a twin mar

Service

  1. Royal Navy as Queenborough15 September 1942 — September 19451,083 days of the war
  2. Royal Australian NavySeptember 1945 — 7 April 19721 days of the war
Q-class destroyer Particulars
Name
HMAS Queenborough
Namesake
Town of Queenborough
Builder
Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson at Wallsend-on-Tyne
Laid down
6 November 1940
Launched
16 January 1942
Commissioned
15 September 1942
Decommissioned
September 1945
Recommissioned
7 December 1954
Fate
Sold for scrap
Status
Scrapped

Specifications — As launched

Displacement, standard
2,020 long tons (2,052 t)
Length
109.12 m (358 ft)
Beam
10.67 m (35 ft)
Draught
2.9 m (9.5 ft)
Speed
36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
Range
4,680 nmi (8,667 km)
Main gun
119 mm (4.7 in)

HMAS Queenborough was a Q-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. The ship was named after Town of Queenborough. Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson at Wallsend-on-Tyne laid her keel on 6 November 1940. She entered service on 15 September 1942, having been launched on 16 January 1942.

She was one of seven ships of her class. The class followed the O and P-class destroyer and was succeeded by the S and T-class destroyer.

She displaced 2,020 long tons. She measured 109.1 m (358 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots. Her main battery was of 119 mm (4.7 in) calibre.

She served with the Royal Navy as Queenborough until September 1945. She then passed to the Royal Australian Navy from September 1945. She was in commission for 1,084 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in September 1945. She recommissioned on 7 December 1954.

She was broken up for scrap.

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Armament and machinery

This vessel is recorded in 2 configurations. Wartime refits changed armament and complement substantially, so each is kept separately rather than averaged into one set of figures. The figures above are as built.

As launched
Armament
  • 4 × single 4.7 inch QF guns
  • 1 × quadruple QF 2-pounder pom-pom
  • 6 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons
  • 2 × 4 torpedo tubes firing 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes
  • 4 × depth-charge throwers
Post conversion
Draught
4.72 m (15.5 ft)
Range
4,040 nmi (7,482 km)
Main gun
40 mm (1.6 in)
Propulsion
  • Parsons geared turbines
  • 2 x shafts
Armament
  • 1 × twin 4-inch HA/LA gun
  • 1 × twin Bofors 40 mm gun
  • 1 × Limbo anti-submarine mortar

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