HMAS Vendetta (D69)
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.jpg) The HMAS Vendetta |
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| Overview | |
| Type | destroyer |
| Shipyard |
Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company , Govan , BauNr. 530 |
| Keel laying | November 1916 |
| Launch | September 3, 1917 |
| Commissioning | October 17, 1917 |
| Whereabouts | Decommissioned November 27, 1945 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement | |
| length |
95.1 m (312 ft) overall, |
| width |
8.9 m (29.5 ft) |
| Draft |
up to 4.9 m (13.66 ft) |
| crew |
119 men |
| drive |
3 Yarrow boiler , |
| speed |
> 35 kn |
| Armament |
4 × 4-in (102-mm) MK.V guns |
| Sister boats |
23 boats Admiralty V class , |
| similar |
5 boats of the V Leader class |
The HMAS Vendetta (D69 / I69) was a British destroyer , the V-Class, which in October 1917 as HMS Vendetta (D69) was put into service. At the end of the war he was part of the Grand Fleet . In 1933 the destroyer was given to the Royal Australian Navy as HMAS Vendetta . At the beginning of the Second World War , the Vendetta served in the Mediterranean and from October 1941 in the Far East. From 1943 to 1945 she was used as an escort vehicle between Australia and New Guinea.
The Vendetta (D69 / I69) was a British destroyer of the V- and W-Class , which in the September 3, 1917 Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited in Govan (Scotland) ran and launched on 17 October 1917 as HMS Vendetta (D69) was commissioned by the Royal Navy for the 13th Destroyer Flotilla. The Vendetta served in the North Sea with the Grand Fleet .
She was one of the nine destroyers who accompanied the British 6th Light Cruiser Squadron under Rear Admiral Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair on November 22, 1918 from Rosyth via Copenhagen and Libau to November 27 to Reval . At the request of the Estonian government, the association should supply the Estonians with weapons and prevent the Soviet fleet from intervening in the civil war in the Baltic states. During an exploration in the Gulf of Finland , the light cruiser HMS Cassandra ran into an unknown German minefield on the night of December 5 and sank. The Vendetta , along with HMS Westminster 430, rescued survivors of the Cassandra . On December 24, 1918, with HMS Wakeful and HMS Vortigern off Reval , she brought down the Soviet Russian destroyer Spartak (ex Kapitan Miklucho-Maklaj , Kapitan Kingsbergen ) , who lost both screws while on the run due to grounding and was brought in by the Vendetta . The Russian destroyer brought in was handed over to Estonia as the core of its own fleet. After a deployment in the Baltic Sea in 1919 as part of the Allied intervention in the Russian civil war , it was used again in the Baltic Sea in 1923 to support Estonia. She spent the longest time during her service with the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean, where she was stationed from 1924 to 1933, most recently in the 1st Destroyer Flotilla.
On October 11, 1933 he was handed over to the Royal Australian Navy as HMAS Vendetta in Portsmouth together with the destroyers HMS Vampire , HMS Voyager , HMS Waterhen of the Admiralty V- and W-Class and the flotilla leader HMS Stuart and then sailed for Australia, where the Vendetta arrived in Sydney on December 21, 1933. After two brief periods in reserve, it was put back into service on September 29, 1938. When the Second World War broke out , she ran with the other Australian destroyers into the Mediterranean, where the boats were referred to by German propaganda as the "scrap iron flotilla". The Vendetta took part in the sea battle at Cape Matapan , even if it failed early due to machine problems. In April 1941 was involved in the Greek campaign and the evacuation of British troops from Greece and then used for supply trips in connection with the fighting around Tobruk , where they carried out most of the supply trips for the destroyers used.
In late October 1941 she moved to Singapore for overhaul . Unfinished, she was caught by the Japanese attack there. It was possible to tow the destroyer to Australia. After the renovation, the Vendetta was used as an escort vehicle between Australia and New Guinea from 1943 to 1945 .
The end of the vendetta
The Vendetta was decommissioned on November 27, 1945 and sold to Penguin Propriety Limited in Sydney on March 20, 1946 for scrapping. After dismantling all usable material, the rest of the boat was sunk off Sydney on July 2, 1948.
Web links
- HMS Vendetta Fairfield, building no. 530
- HMAS Vendetta - V & W-class Destroyer in WORLD WAR 2
- HMAS Vendetta official website of the RAN
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