HMAS Vampire (D68)
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HMAS Vampire was a V-class destroyer of the Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy. Launched in 1917 as HMS Wallace, the ship was renamed and commissioned into the RN later that year. Vampire was lent t
HMAS Vampire
HMAS Vampire, c. 1940
Vampire on convoy escort in the Indian Ocean, 4 March 1942
HMS Hermes (95)
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HMS Hermes was a British aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy and was the world's first ship to be designed as an aircraft carrier, although the Imperial Japanese Navy's Hōshō was the first to be
HMAS Vampire (D68)
…Japanese aircraft in the South China Sea in December 1941. Vampire was sunk on 9 April 1942 by Japanese aircraft while sailing with the aircraft carrier HMS Hermes from Trincomalee. The destroyer was one of five Admiralty V-class flotilla leaders ordered by the RN in the 1916–17 construction program. Originally…
Hermes off Yantai, China, circa 1931
HMS Hermes at Honolulu, 1924
Hermes in 1938
Hermes and HMS Dorsetshire escorting a convoy in June 1940