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| The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Queenborough (G70) at anchor, probably off Wallsend-on-Tyne, England (UK), where she hed been built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson. HMS Queenborough, shortly after her 1942 commissioning |
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| 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 mark 19 mounting aft. Note the launching rails for flare rockets fitted to the side of the mounting. Two Limbo anti submarine mortars and their magazines are fitted in an echelon arrangement aft. A type 277 height finding radar is fitted just above the bridge. Type 293q air surface search and type 974 navigation radars are fitted to the foremast. The ship has not yet been commissioned as she is flying no ensign and her close range blind fire director has not yet been fitted. She is probably running speed trials. (Naval Historical Collection) |
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.
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