.jpg) HMAS Queenborough in 1954, after conversion to an anti-submarine frigate
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| History | |
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 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Motto | "Seek And Slay" |
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| Honours and awards |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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.
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NNmysteryshipwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "HMAS Queenborough". www.navy.gov.au. Royal Australian Navy. Retrieved 17 December 2018.