Portal:Military history of Australia/Units/February 28

HMAS Quadrant (G11/F01) was a Q class destroyer laid down by R and W Hawthorn at Hebburn, England on 24 September 1940, launched on 28 February 1942, commissioned in the Royal Navy on 26 November 1942, purchased by Australia and commissioned into the RAN on 18 October 1945, paid off into Reserve at Sydney on 20 June 1947, converted to a fast anti-submarine frigate at the Williamstown Naval Dockyard in Melbourne and recommissioned on 16 July 1953. Quadrant was paid off into Operational Reserve at Sydney on 16 August 1957 and was sold for scrap to the Japanese firm of Kinoshita and Company Limited on 15 February 1963.