HMAS QUIBERON, (destroyer), returned to Sydney after a cruise to Tasmania, and moored at No.2 buoy in Sydney Harbour. That night the merchant ship KING STEPHEN lost steerage way while entering the harbour, and rammed QUIBERON in the vicinity of the engine room, and caused significant damage. Next day the ship was docked in the King George V Dry Dock at Garden Island for repairs, and was not fit for sea again until early February 1948.
Australian Naval History on 23 November 1947
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