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HMAS ''Quadrant'' (G11/D11/F01), named for the navigational instrument,〔 was a Q-class destroyer operated by the Royal Navy as HMS ''Quadrant'' (G67/D17) during World War II, and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) from 1945 to 1957. The ship was built during the early 1940s as one of the War Emergency Programme destroyers, and entered service in 1942. During World War II, ''Quadrant'' served as a convoy escort in the Arctic, South Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, and operated with the British Eastern and British Pacific Fleets. At the war's end, the ship was decommissioned and transferred to the RAN, which operated her for two years before placing her in reserve. In 1950, the ship was docked for conversion into an anti-submarine frigate. ''Quadrant'' was recommissioned in 1953, and operated with the RAN until 1957, when she was paid off. The ship was sold for breaking in 1963. ==Design and construction== (詳細はQ class design; the third flotilla of War Emergency Programme destroyers. These ships had a displacement of 1,750 tons at standard load, and 2,388 tons at full load.〔Cassells, ''The Destroyers'', p. 87〕 The destroyer was in length overall, long between perpendiculars, and had a beam of .〔 Propulsion was provided by two Admiralty 3-drum boilers connected to Parsons geared turbines; these provided 40,000 shaft horsepower to the destroyer's two propellers.〔Cassells, ''The Destroyers'', p. 88〕 ''Quadrant'' could reach speeds of .〔 The ship's company consisted of 220 officers and sailors.〔 ''Quadrants'' armament (at the end of World War II) consisted of four single 4.7-inch QF Mark XI * * guns, a quadruple 2-pounder "pom-pom", six single 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns, and two quadruple torpedo tube sets for 21-inch torpedoes.〔 The ship was also fitted with four depth charge throwers, with up to 70 depth charges carried.〔 The destroyer was laid down at laid down by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company Limited at Hebburn-on-Tyne, England on 24 September 1940.〔 She was launched on 28 February 1942 by the wife of one of the shipyard's directors.〔 ''Quadrant'' was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 26 November 1942.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMAS Quadrant (G11)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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