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HMAS ''Vampire'' was the third of three Australian-built ''Daring'' class destroyers serving in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). One of the first all-welded ships built in Australia, she was constructed at Cockatoo Island Dockyard between 1952 and 1959, and was commissioned into the RAN a day after completion. ''Vampire'' was regularly deployed to South East Asia during her career: she was attached to the Far East Strategic Reserve on five occasions, including during the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation, and escorted the troop transport on six of the latter's twenty-five transport voyages to Vietnam. In 1977, the destroyer was assigned to escort the Royal Yacht ''Britannia'' during Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip's visit to Australia. In 1980, ''Vampire'' was reclassified as a training ship. The warship remained in service until 1986, when she was decommissioned and presented to the Australian National Maritime Museum for preservation as a museum ship; the largest museum-owned object on display in Australia. ==Design== (詳細は''Daring'' class destroyers, which were to be named after the ships of the "Scrap Iron Flotilla" of World War II. The ships were modified during construction: most changes were made to improve habitability, including the installation of air-conditioning.〔Cooper, in Stevens, ''The Royal Australian Navy'', p. 167〕 ''Vampire'' and her sister ships were the first all-welded ships to be constructed in Australia.〔Cooper, in Stevens, ''The Royal Australian Navy'', p. 168〕 The ''Daring''s had a standard displacement of 2,800 tons, which increased to 3,600 tons at full load.〔 ''Vendetta'' and her sisters were long, with a beam of , and a draught of at mean, and at full or deep load.〔 Her propulsion system consisted of two Foster Wheeler boilers, feeding two English Electric geared turbines, which provided to two propeller shafts.〔 ''Vampire'' could sail at over , and had a range of at .〔 Her standard ship's company consisted of 20 officers and 300 sailors.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMAS Vampire (D11)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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