HMA Ships NORMAN and QUIBERON, (destroyers), operated with Force 63 in Operation Millet, the air strike and bombardment of the Nicobar Islands. LCDR J. M. Alliston, RN, assumed command of ...
HMAS Quiberon
Australian Naval History on 17 May 1944
HMA Ships QUIBERON, NAPIER and NEPAL, (destroyers), were involved in Operation Transom. This was the attack mounted by Allied aircraft and surface units on Japanese oil installations at Surabaya. HMA ...
Australian Naval History on 19 April 1944
HMA Ships NAPIER, NEPAL, NIZAM, QUICKMATCH, and QUIBERON, (destroyers), operated as part of the British Pacific Fleet in the attack on Sabang, (Operation Cockpit), by carrier-borne aircraft. ...
Australian Naval History on 31 March 1944
HMA Ships NAPIER, NORMAN, NEPAL, and QUIBERON, (destroyers), and HM ships QUALITY and QUEENBOROUGH, participated in Operation Diplomat, the reinforcing of the British Eastern Fleet. HMA Submarine K9, formerly the ...
Australian Naval History on 21 December 1942
HMAS QUIBERON, (destroyer), took off troops and crew from the bombed and burning transport STRATHALLAN, torpedoed off North Africa. ...
Australian Naval History on 2 December 1942
HMAS QUIBERON, (destroyer), with HM Ships ARGONAUT, AURORA, SINUS, and QUENTIN, sank the Italian destroyer FOLGORE, and four merchant ships, in a point-blank night attack off Skerki Bank, North Africa. ...
Australian Naval History on 28 November 1942
HMAS QUIBERON and HMS QUENTIN sank the Italian submarine DESSIE, north of Bone, North Africa. HMA Ships BALLARAT and KATOOMBA, (minesweepers), were attacked by 10 Japanese dive bombers west of ...
Australian Naval History on 8 November 1942
HMAS QUIBERON, (destroyer), participated in Operation Torch, the Allied landing in North Africa. ...
Australian Naval History on 1 November 1942
HMAS QUIBERON, (destroyer), was part of Force ‘Q’ which destroyed an Italian supply convoy. HMAS QUICKMATCH, (destroyer), was involved in the destruction of the Italian ship CORTELLAZZO off Capr Finisterre. ...
Australian Naval History on 22 July 1942
HMAS QUIBERON, (destroyer), was completed at J. Samuel White’s, UK. ...
Australian Naval History on 6 July 1942
HMAS QUIBERON was commissioned at Cowes, Isle of Wight. The auxiliary minesweeper HMAS MERCEDES, was commissioned. MERCEDES, (as HMS MEDUSA), was laid down in Taikoo Dockyard, Singapore, in 1913. The ...