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	HMAS Vampire (D68) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMAS Vampire (D68/I68) was a V-class destroyer of the British and Royal Australian navies.
		Vampire departed for Australia on 17 October 1933 and arrived in Sydney on 21 December 1933, paid off into reserve on 31 January 1934 but re-commissioned on 14 July 1936, paid off into reserve on 18 July 1936.
		Vampire was hit by a bomb which broke her in half and she sank at 11:05 with the loss of nine of her crew.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMAS_Vampire_(D68) (239 words)

	HMAS Vampire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vampire departed for Australia on 17 October 1933 and arrived in Sydney on 21 December 1933, paid off into reserve on 31 January 1934 but re-commissioned on 14 July 1936, paid off into reserve on 18 July 1936 but recommissioned on 11 May 1938, and was involved in the evacuation of Greece in April 1941.
		HMAS Vampire and the British aircraft carrier HMS Hermes were attacked by Japanese aircraft off Batticaloa in Ceylon at 1035 on 9 April 1942, and the carrier went down within twenty minutes.
		The second HMAS Vampire (D-11) was a Daring-class destroyer 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.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/hmas_vampire (272 words)

	HMS Vampire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She served in World War I with the Royal Navy (as HMS Vampire) and then was transferred to the Royal Australian Navy in 1933, (becoming HMAS Vampire), served in World War II, and was sunk by air attack off Ceylon on 9 April 1942.
		Vampire (P72), of the Royal Navy, was launched in 1943, was the lead ship of her class of submarines.
		Vampire (D11), of the Royal Australian Navy, is a Daring-class destroyer, launched in 1956 and paid off in 1986.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMAS_Vampire (179 words)

	HMAS Vampire Daring class destroyer - OzMods 1/700
		The Daring class destroyer HMAS Vampire was built at the Cockatoo Island Dockyard (Codock to it's friends), located in Sydney Harbour, west of the Harbour Bridge.
		OzMods kit represents HMAS Vampire after she had been converted to a training ship and as she is now at the National Maritime Museum.
		However, since the kit is for HMAS Vampire after her conversion, you get some nice decals for the spares box.
	smmlonline.com /reviews/models/vampire/vampire.htm (560 words)

	Lost
		HMAS Yarra was sunk on 4 March 1942,approximately 500 kilometres south of central Java (modern Indonesia).
		Vampire was first in action against the Japanese during the battle in which both HM Ships Repulse and Prince of Wales were sunk by Japanese aircraft off the east coast of Malaya on 10 December 1941.
		HMAS Nestor was part of a Mediterranean convoy, ‘Operation Vigorous’, with five cruisers and 11 other destroyers when the convoy was attacked by German bombers on 14 June 1942.
	www.ww2australia.gov.au /waratsea/lostG.html (2774 words)

	HMAS Vampire (D11) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMAS Vampire (D11) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMAS Vampire (D11) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMAS Vampire (D11).
		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 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.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/HMAS-Vampire-D11.html (170 words)

	HMAS Vampire 1 - Royal Australian Navy History
		VAMPIRE recommissioned at Sydney on 14 July 1936 for the voyage to Westernport where she arrived on 17 July to replace TATTOO as Tender to HMAS CERBERUS (Flinders Naval Depot).
		This period, which ended for VAMPIRE on 15 October when she returned to Alexandria with the 2nd Division of the battle fleet, was marked by the usual air attacks and VAMPIRE’s new anti-aircraft gun was well tried.
		VAMPIRE rejoined the Inshore Squadron on 9 January 1941 too late to witness the capture of Bardia by the Australian troops on 4 January.
	www.navy.gov.au /spc/history/ships/vampire1.htm (5653 words)

	HMAS Vampire
		HMAS VAMPIRE commissioned at Sydney on 23 June 1959 under the command of Captain Eric J. Peel DSC RAN.
		VAMPIRE returned to Sydney in August and the remainder of 1966 was taken up with local exercises, mid cycle docking and participation in a four nation exercise in the Solomon Sea off New Guinea.
		Vampire deployed again to the Far East from March to October 1969, during which she undertook self-maintenance in Singapore and Hong Kong.
	www.vvaavic.org.au /Navy/vampire.htm (1464 words)

	Remembering 1942 - The sinking of HMAS Vampire, 9 April 1942 [Australian War Memorial]
		In Vampire, there were some smaller calibre anti-aircraft weapons, but her main armament of 4-inch guns was completely useless and their crews could do nothing more than stand by and watch events unfold.
		When the anticipated enemy threat had failed to materialise by 2 April, Somerville assumed that either the intelligence that he had received was wrong or that the Japanese had cancelled their operation.
		The second HMAS Vampire paid off in August 1986 and these days is preserved on public display at the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour in Sydney.
	www.awm.gov.au /atwar/remembering1942/vampire/talk.htm (1516 words)

	RAN in WW2
		On 19 July 1940 HMAS Sydney was involved in the best known action of the Mediterranean campaign when off the coast of Crete, she came to the rescue of a British destroyer division on anti-submarine patrol that was being engaged by two Italian Cruisers.
		HMAS Vampire had formed part of the destroyer escort for these battleships and along with the British destroyer Electra was able to rescue 796 people.
		HMAS Vampire was also the first Australian vessel to engage the Japanese navy when on the night of 26-27 January 1942 she, along with HMS Thanet attacked Japanese naval units off Endau, Malaya..
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-navy/ran_ww2.htm (978 words)

	Invasion of Malaya: Overview
		On 10 December, the destroyer HMAS Vampire became the first Australian ship in action against the Japanese when HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales were sunk off the east coast of Malaya by enemy aircraft.
		Vampire and the three other escorting destroyers were able to rescue over 2000 survivors from the two British ships.
		On 27 January, HMAS Vampire, together with HMS Thanet, took part in an attack on a superior Japanese surface force off Endau on the east coast.
	www.ww2australia.gov.au /japadvance/malaya.html (987 words)

	The Vampire
		The HMAS Vampire (known as "The Bat") is the last of the Royal Australian Navy's conventional gun boats.
		Fire control radar was retrofitted in the 1970s, but that couldn't save Vampire from retirement - she was just to manual and mechanical for a modern navy.
		A model of the after portions of the Vampire, showing the Foster-Wheeler boilers and steam turbines that powered the Vampire to a maximum speed of 30.5 knots.
	www.campbellholt.com /rtw2001/day17b.htm (654 words)

	Old Vamp hits the harbour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		VAMPIRE is being "spruced up" because she is set for a busy time.
		VAMPIRE was built in 1959 and decommissioned in 1986.
		VAMPIRE is one of the prime exhibits at the museum and attracts thousands of visitors annually.
	www.defence.gov.au /news/NAVYNEWS/editions/2001/06_25_01/story11.htm (265 words)

	VK Ham vessels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMAS Vampire, a Daring class destroyer of the 1950s period, is preserved at the National Maritime Museum in Sydney.The ship had a major rebuild in the 1970s and was de-commissioned in the 1980s.
		HMAS Diamantina is a British designed River class frigate, built in Australia in 1943 together with 7 sister ships.
		HMAS Castlemaine is a WWII minesweeper and escort vessel and was commissioned in 1942.
	www.vk2bv.org /anars/w_ship.htm (377 words)

	AUSTRALIA
		HMAS DERWENT was the first of the class to be equipped with the Seacat anti-aircraft missile system.
		On 28 February 1970, HMAS PARRAMATTA was involved with a collision with the Sydney ferry BELLUBERA.
		That was to trial the RBS70 surface-to-air missile system before it was fitted to the fleet oiler HMAS WESTRALIA for her deployment to the Persian Gulf during the Gulf War and the subsequent naval activity in support of United Nations trade sanctions imposed on Iraq.
	www.xsouth.freeserve.co.uk /riverclassart.htm (3394 words)

	Print Article: Rocket Rod navigated his way to the top
		After sea training in HMAS Swan, he was sent to Britain for further study at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, beginning an association with the Royal Navy that was to be renewed several times during his career.
		His navigational skills were then put to use in HMAS Sydney, then engaged in logistic support for Australian forces in Vietnam, and later HMAS Melbourne.
		From the time he took command of Vampire, where he was known to his ship's company as "Rocket Rod", his focus was operations until he became deputy chief of naval staff in November 1991.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/09/29/1033283389138.html (1049 words)

	Remembering 1942 - The sinking of HMAS Vampire, 9 April 1942 [Australian War Memorial]
		The sinking of HMAS Vampire, 9 April 1942
		The destroyer HMAS Vampire, 1,090 tons, four 4-inch guns, six 21-inch torpedo tubes, 34 knots, lost in Japanese air attack on the Bay of Bengal, 9 April 1942.
		HMAS Vampire (left) and HMS Hermes, a British aircraft carrier en route to Australia, being attacked and sunk by a Japanese carrier fleet.
	www.awm.gov.au /atwar/remembering1942/vampire/photos.htm (92 words)

	OzMods 1/700 resin HMAS Vampire
		The Daring class destroyer HMAS Vampire was built at the Williamstown dockyard in Melbourne, commisioned in 1959 and finally de-commisioned in 1986.
		The Vampire served in the Malaysian Police action, where she performed anti-infiltration patrols.
		She also served in the naval gunfire support role during the Vietnam conflict and finally operated around the island of Timor during the invasion by Indonesia in August and September 1975.
	www.internetmodeler.com /1999/august/first-looks/vampire.htm (572 words)

	Royal Australian Navy in the Pacific
		VAMPIRE formed part of the escort of HM Ships PRINCE OF WALES and REPULSE on their ill fated sortie to attack Japanese landing forces at Kuantan on Malaysia's east coast.
		Also fortunate was the destroyer HMAS VENDETTA which had been immobilised and under repair in dry dock at Singapore at the time of the attack.
		While supporting commando operations in Timor the destroyer HMAS VOYAGER was lost in September 1942 as was the corvette HMAS ARMIDALE in December.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-navy/in_the_pacific.htm (2646 words)

	OzMods 1/600 HMS Voyager
		Named Voyager, Vendetta and Vampire respectively and based on a modified British Daring class design, HMAS Voyager was the first to be delivered.
		HMAS Vampire was paid off and is now moored alongside the National Maritime Museum.
		I obtained further information from photos I took at HMAS Albatross in Nowra last year of a beautiful 1/72 model made by a member of Task Force 72, plus a number of publications which provided additional photos.
	www.internetmodeler.com /1999/november/ships/voyager.htm (1907 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot - HMAS STUART WW2 Battle Of Matapan
		HMAS Stuart was transferred from the RN to the RAN in 1933.
		One day late in March, a particularly important and valuable convoy (as Bob Blakey in HMAS Vampire put it; “A nice big fat juicy convoy”) was on its way to pass the Kithera Channel.
		When HMAS Stuart left the Mediterranean to sail to Australia for a refit and service in the Pacific in October 1941, Captain Hector Waller RAN was transferred to take command of the Australian cruiser HMAS Perth.
	www.gunplot.net /matapan/matapan.html (2808 words)

	About us
		On 29th July VAMPIRE was back in Alexandria where refit was begun which kept her in dock until 18th August when she resumed convoy escort duties between Alexandria, Port Said and Haifa, returning to Alexandria on 24th July.
		VAMPIRE assigned as escort to the Malta convoy (MW3) sailed from Alexandria on 5th November returning on 13th November with the eastbound convoy after an uneventful voyage.
		VAMPIRE rejoined the Inshore Squadron on 9th January 1941 too late to witness the capture of Bardia by the Australian troops on 4th January.
	www.forcez-survivors.org.uk /vampire.html (5221 words)

	ONSLOW Finds New Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although the historic decommissioning of HMAS ONSLOW was a little sad after 30 years of service, she made a short and majestic voyage to her new and welcoming home.
		ONSLOW was escorted by two tugs to her new resting place at the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour in Sydney.
		Travelling under tow, and in the command of LCDR Sean O'Dwyer with a complement of twenty on her casing, she made a splendid sight gliding through Sydney's harbour to her berth alongside HMAS VAMPIRE at the museum.
	www.defence.gov.au /news/NAVYNEWS/EDITIONS/1999/05_03_99/story08.htm (244 words)

	astro.iinet.net.au - HMAS Vampire at Sydney - 19th October 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMAS Vampire (D11) is an Daring class destroyer commissioned in 1959 by the Royal Australian Navy.
		Her primary mission was to provide aircraft carrier escort and gunfire support to the fleet.
		Vampire took part in many exercises and joint operations with other navies.
	www.nachohat.org /p/sydney_oct2001/hmas_vampire (134 words)

	Hms Vampire 1923 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Service/Unit : HMS Hermes, HMS Vampire, HMS Hollyhock...
		In April 1923 VENDETTA was again in the Baltic and was inspected by Marshal Pilsudski, President of...
		Her escorts the destroyer HMAS Vampire and the corvette Hollyhock and two tankers were also sunk...
	www.bramstokercentre.org /hmsvampire1923.html (214 words)

	HMAS Vampire (D68) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMAS Vampire (D68) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMAS Vampire (D68) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMAS Vampire (D68).
		Here you will find more informations about HMAS Vampire (D68).
		The orginal HMAS Vampire (D68) article can be editet
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/HMAS-Vampire-D68.html (295 words)

	OSUpd
		The HMAS Onslow submarine has arrived safely at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney for permanent display following a decommissioning ceremony on 29 March 1999.
		HMAS Onslow (an Oberon Class submarine) is named after the town of Onslow, in the Shire of Ashburton.
		It is the third vessel of her name in naval history, the first two both being destroyers carrying proud battle honours.
	www.kisser.net.au /ashburton/press/apr/osupd.htm (148 words)

	Daring Class Destroyers by Vince Fazio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On the 13th August 1986, HMAS Vampire ("the last of the destroyers sleek"), was decommissioned thus ending an era in Royal Australian Naval history.
		From the tragic loss of HMAS Voyager off Jervis Bay in 1964 to HMAS Vendetta's time in Vietnam on the gun line (being the only Australian made ship on a tour of duty there).
		The four RAN Darings which includes HMAS Duchess (transferred after the loss of the Voyager from the RN), served with distinction in the RAN as the last gun destroyers through to their final roles as training ships.
	www.smmlonline.com /reviews/books/vampire.html (247 words)

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