Portal:Military history of Australia/Units/October 15

HMAS Vampire (D11) was a Daring-class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy. She was laid down by the Cockatoo Island Dockyard at Sydney on 1 July 1952 and was 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 transport ship HMAS Sydney to Vietnam in 1965 and 1966 and conduct active patrols off Malaya and Borneo during the Indonesian Confrontation in 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.