HMAS Vampire (D68)
1917-1942 V-class destroyer of the Royal and Royal Australian navies / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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HMAS Vampire was a V-class destroyer of the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Launched in 1917 as HMS Wallace, the ship was renamed and commissioned into the RN later that year. Vampire was lent to the RAN in 1933, and operated as a depot tender until just before World War II. Reactivated for war service, the destroyer served in the Mediterranean as part of the Scrap Iron Flotilla, and was escorting the British warships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse during their loss to Japanese aircraft in the South China Sea in December 1941. Vampire was sunk on 9 April 1942 by Japanese aircraft while sailing with the aircraft carrier HMS Hermes from Trincomalee.
HMAS Vampire | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Wallace |
Namesake | William Wallace |
Ordered | 1916 |
Builder | J. Samuel White & Co Ltd |
Laid down | 10 October 1916 |
Launched | 21 May 1917 |
Renamed | Vampire 1917 |
Commissioned | 22 September 1917 |
Decommissioned | 11 November 1933 |
Fate | Transferred to Australia |
History | |
Australia | |
Name | Vampire |
Namesake | vampire |
Acquired | 11 November 1933 |
Commissioned | 11 November 1933 |
Decommissioned | 31 January 1934 |
Recommissioned | 11 May 1938 |
Identification | Pennant number D68/I68 |
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Fate | Bombed and sunk by Japanese aircraft on 9 April 1942 |
General characteristics (RAN service) | |
Class and type | V-class flotilla leader |
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Length |
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Beam | 29 ft 6 in (9.0 m) |
Draught | 13 ft 9 in (4.2 m) maximum |
Propulsion | 3 × White Forster boilers, 2 × Brown-Curtis turbines, twin screws, generating 27,000 shp (20,000 kW) |
Speed | 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
Range | 3,500 nmi (6,500 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 6 officers, 113 sailors |
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