HMAS Vampire (D11)
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- For other ships of this name, see HMAS Vampire.
 HMAS Vampire at the Australian National Maritime Museum |
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| Career Australia |  |
|---|---|
| Builder: | Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney |
| Laid down: | 1 July 1952 |
| Launched: | 27 October 1956 |
| Commissioned: | 23 June 1959 |
| Decommissioned: | 13 August 1986 |
| Status: | Museum ship |
| Homeport: | Australian National Maritime Museum |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 2,800 tons standard, 3,950 tons full load |
| Length: | 118.65 m |
| Beam: | 13.11 m |
| Draught: | 3.88 m mean, 5.49 m maximum |
| Propulsion: | 54,000 shp English Electric geared turbines, two Foster Wheeler boilers, twin screws and rudders |
| Speed: | 30+ knots |
| Range: | 3,030 nautical miles at 20 knots |
| Complement: | 219 + 75 trainees (1980s configuration) |
| Armament: | Six 4.5-inch (114 mm) dual-purpose guns in three twin mountings; two single and two twin 40/60 mm Bofors AA guns; Mark 10 Limbo anti-submarine mortar; quintuple 21" torpedo launcher |
| Motto: | "Let us be daring" |
HMAS Vampire (D11) was a Daring-class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy. 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.
Vampire spent most of her career on exercises and tours through South East Asia. Her only war time duties were to escort the aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney to Vietnam in 1965 and 1966 and conduct active patrols off Malaya and Borneo during the Indonesian Confrontation of 1966.
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 was moved to HMAS Kuttabul for refits and maintenance during late 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 irrepairable damage, and nobody was injured. Vampire is slated to return to the Australian National Maritime Museum on November 28. [1]
[edit] References
- ^ Pride of naval museum catches fire. The Daily Telegraph (Australia), November 2, 2006.
[edit] External links
| Daring class destroyer |
| Royal Navy |
| Dainty | Daring | Decoy | Defender | Delight | Diamond | Diana | Duchess |
| Peruvian Navy |
| Palacios (ex-Diana) | Ferré (ex-Decoy) |
| Voyager class destroyer |
| Duchess | Vampire | Vendetta | Voyager |
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