| Specifications
Displacement: 3,580 tons full load
Dimensions: 118.8 x 13.1 x 4.1 meters (390 x 43 x 13.6
feet)
Propulsion: 2 shafts, Parsons geared turbines, 2 Babcock
and Wilcox boilers (Foster and Wheeler in 114, 108, 35, and 154), 54,000 shp,
35 knots
Crew: 297
Aviation
None.
Surface Action
Guns:
3 - 4.5"/45 Mk.6 DP twin mounts
Torpedoes: 2 banks of 5-21" torpedo tubes (first removed
1958-59, second removed 1963)
Radar: Type 293 surface
search / low angle air search, target indication
Air Defence
Guns:
6 - 45"/45 Mk.6 DP twin mounts
1 to 3-40mm/60 Mk.5 or 2-Mk.9 twin mounts (Mk.7 single
bridge mounts in some) [replacing 40mm/60 STAAG Mk.2 twins (1963)]
Radar: Type 293
surface search / low angle air search, target indication
Fire Control: Type 903 tracker for MRS3 (Medium Range System
No.3) replacing Type 262
Undersea Warfare
Armament: 1 Squid depth
bomb launcher
Sonar:
Type 170 attack set for Squid
Type 174/177 medium range seach
Electronic
Warfare
Attack:
ESM:
ComInt:
Ships:
Name
|
Pendant
|
Completed
|
Comments
|
Fate
|
DAINTY
|
D 108
|
1953
|
|
Scrapped 1972
|
DARING
|
D 05
|
|
|
Scrapped 1971
|
DECOY
|
D 106
|
1953
|
ex-DRAGON
|
Peru, 1970
|
DEFENDER
|
D 114
|
1952
|
ex-DOGSTAR
|
Scrapped 1972
|
DELIGHT
|
D 119
|
1953
|
ex-DISDAIN, ex-YPRES
|
Scrapped 1971
|
DIAMOND
|
D 35
|
|
|
Dockside training ship 1970, Scrapped
1981
|
DIANA
|
D 126
|
|
ex-DRUID
|
Peru, 1970
|
DUCHESS
|
D 154
|
|
|
Australia, 1964
|
Photos:
(click on thumbnail for bigger image)
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DIAMOND at anchor.
Her 'B' gun mount is trained to maximum elevation, illustrating the gun's
utility as an anti-aircraft weapon. The Squid launcher can be seen under its
cover on the stern. M.D. Thomas photo. |
|
DEFENDER shown
alongside. A twin Bofors mounting can be seen on the starboard bridge wing.
The Type 903 fire control radar is visible above the bridge foreward of the
mast, and the distinctive Type 293 radar near the masthead. M.D. Thomas photo.
|
|
The former HMAS
VAMPIRE is open to the public in Sydney, Australia, at the National Maritime
Museum. Sandy McClearn photo.
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Ex-HMAS VAMPIRE
in Sydney. Sandy McClearn photo.
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