HMAS Vampire (D11)

HMAS Vampire (D11)

HMAS "Vampire" (D11) was the third of three Australian-built "Daring" class destroyers serving in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

Construction

She was laid down by the Cockatoo Island Dockyard at Sydney in New South Wales on 1 July 1952, launched on 27 October 1956 and commissioned on 23 June 1959.

Operational history

"Vampire" spent most of her career on exercises and tours through South East Asia. Her only wartime duties were to escort the aircraft carrier HMAS "Sydney" to Vietnam in 1965 and 1966, and to conduct active patrols off Malaya and Borneo during the Indonesian Confrontation of 1966. In 1977, "Vampire" was tasked as the escort of HMY "Britannia" during the Australian section of Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee tour of the Commonwealth.cite web |url=http://www.anmm.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=164 |title=On the water - HMAS Vampire |accessdate=2007-01-22 |publisher=Australian National Maritime Museum] In 1980, she was refitted as a training vessel.

Decommissioning

"Vampire" paid off on 13 August 1986, and was preserved as a museum ship at the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour in Sydney's Port Jackson, where it serves as the museum's largest floating exhibition. "Vampire" is the largest museum ship in Australia.

History as museum ship

"Vampire" was moved to HMAS Kuttabul for refits and maintenance on 18 October 2006, triggering false rumours that she would be refitted and returned to active service. [Brooke, Michael. [http://www.defence.gov.au/news/navynews/editions/4921/feature/feature03.htm Destroyer revamped] . "NAVY News", (Volume 49, Number 21) 16 November 2006.] During this refit, which included dry-dock work, a fire broke out in the ship's boiler room. The fire did not cause any irreparable damage, and nobody was injured. [Pride of naval museum catches fire. "The Daily Telegraph (Australia)", 2 November 2006.] "Vampire" was moved back to Darling Harbour on 29 November.

References

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External links

* [http://www.hnsa.org/ships/vampire.htm HNSA Ship Page: USS "Vampire"]


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