HMAS Quickmatch was one of eight Q Class destroyers built for the Royal Navy, and she was commissioned in the Royal Australian Navy at Cowes, Isle of Wight, as HMAS Quickmatch (G92) on 14th. September 1942 under the command of Lieutenant Commander Rodney Rhoades DSC RAN.

  

After trials the ship commenced convoy escort duty on 5th. October 1942. In November 1942 she proceeded to the South Atlantic Station for further convoy escort duty. En route on 1st. December she intercepted the Italian blockade runner Cortelazzo. Following four months convoy duty on the South Atlantic Station Quickmatch transferred to the Indian Ocean for similar duty, although she was detached to the South Atlantic Station during June, July and August 1943. At some point safety matches made by Federal featured Royal Australian Navy ships crests, hence the nick name for Quickmatch of "The Match". She was also known as "Quickie Maru" - read on.

Quickmatch MatchboxIn May 1944 Quickmatch was included in the main force of the British Eastern Fleet, based on Ceylon, which carried out a successful carrier borne air attack on the Japanese base at Sourabaya on 17th. May. This action was followed on 21st. June by a similar assault from the air on Port Blair in the Andaman Islands. During these operations Quickmatch was a unit of the 4th Destroyer Flotilla, Eastern Fleet. On 25th. July 1944 Quickmatch as part of an inshore force, entered Sabang Harbour, Sumatra, and carried out a close range bombardment of Japanese installations.

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