HMAS Queenborough

HMAS Queenborough in 1954, after conversion to an anti-submarine frigate
History
United Kingdom
Name	Queenborough
Namesake	Town of Queenborough
Builder	Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson at Wallsend-on-Tyne
Cost	£725,000
Laid down	6 November 1940
Launched	16 January 1942
Commissioned	15 September 1942
Completed	10 December 1942
Decommissioned	September 1945
Honours and awards	Battle honours: Arctic 1942–43 Sicily 1943 Salerno 1943 Mediterranean 1943 Okinawa 1945
Fate	Transferred to Royal Australian Navy
Australia
Commissioned	September 1945
Recommissioned	7 December 1954
Decommissioned	10 July 1963
Recommissioned	28 July 1966
Decommissioned	7 April 1972
Reclassified	Anti-submarine frigate (1954) Training ship (1966)
Motto	"Seek And Slay"
Nickname(s)	Queenbee Fighting 57[1]
Honours and awards	Battle honours: Malaya 1957
Fate	Sold for scrap
General characteristics [2](as launched)
Class and type	Q-class destroyer
Displacement	2020 tons
Length	358 feet and 9 Inches (109.99m)
Beam	35 feet 9 inches (10.6m)
Draught	9.5 ft (2.9 m)
Speed	36 Knots (66.672 kmh)
Range	4,680 nautical miles (8,670 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h)
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
General characteristics (post conversion)
Type	Modified Type 15 frigate
Draught	15.5 ft (4.7 m)
Propulsion	Parsons geared turbines 2 x shafts
Range	4,040 nautical miles (7,480 km) at 16 knots (30 km/h)
Armament	1 × twin 4-inch HA/LA gun 1 × twin Bofors 40 mm gun 1 × Limbo anti-submarine mortar
Notes	Other characteristics as above

HMAS Queenborough (G70/D270/F02/57) (originally HMS Queenborough (G70/D19)) was a Q-class destroyer that served in the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

Constructed during World War II as part of the War Emergency Programme, Queenborough was laid down in 1940 and launched in 1942, serving in the Arctic, Mediterranean, and Pacific theatres. After the war ended, the ship was transferred on loan to the RAN in exchange for an N-class destroyer, then given to Australia as a gift in 1950.

Queenborough was converted to an anti-submarine frigate, and served with the RAN until 1966. During this time, she was deployed to the Far East Strategic Reserve on multiple occasions, participated in numerous fleet exercises, and took on a partial training role. She was decommissioned and placed in reserve, but reactivated in 1969 as a training ship. Queenborough remained in service for another three years, until a series of mechanical and structural faults required that she be retired, decommissioning in 1972 and being scrapped in Hong Kong in 1975.