RAN · DD

Vampire

Sunk

V-class destroyer of the Scrap Iron Flotilla. On 9 April 1942 Japanese dive bombers sank her in the Bay of Bengal. Not credited to one plane.

Class	V/W (Scrap Iron Flotilla) class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	D68
Fate	Sunk. by Japanese aircraft on 9 April 1942, off Ceylon, after HMS Hermes had gone down. Her captain and eight sailors were killed. Not credited to one plane.
Armament (class)	V and W destroyer. Four guns and two funnels.
Command	Moran, William Thomas Alldis Captain from 13 October 1941; In command when she was lost, 9 April 1942

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

Australian War Memorial. HMAS Vampire 1942.jpg. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The pictures on this page are the originals.

Command

1941-12-10 · picked up Repulse's survivors; not sunk