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HMAS Vampire 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. 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 III 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. Post decommissioning 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. [1] 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. [2] Vampire was moved back to Darling Harbour on November 29. [ 本帖最后由 jasonnewman 于 2007-1-2 18:31 编辑 ] |
