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HMAS Queenborough in 1954 after conversion to an anti-submarine frigate

HMAS Queenborough (G30/F02) was a Q-class destroyer built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Limited at Wallsend-on-Tyne in England. Queenborough was commissioned into the Royal Navy in December 1942 and was manned by Australians throughout the war. Following the war she was purchased by Australia and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy in October 1945. Following her conversion to an anti-submarine frigate between 1949 and 1954 Queenborough undertook six deployments to the Far East between 1956 and 1963. Queenborough paid off in July 1963 but was recommissioned as a training ship in July 1966. HMAS Queenborough was decommissioned in April 1972 and was later sold for scrap.