HMA Ships QUALITY and QUIBERON, (destroyers), were decommissioned at Sydney and sold to Mitsubishi in Japan, for breaking up. RADM O. H. Becher, DSO, DSC, RAN, who was the Fleet Commander at the time, and a former Commanding Officer of HMAS QUIBERON, signaled to the ship:- “I am sorry the last of my favourite ships is being paid off”.
Australian Naval History on 10 April 1958
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