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Daring Class Destroyers (1949) of the Royal Australian Navy: Hmas Voyager, Hmas Duchess, Hmas Vampire, Hmas Vendetta

Daring Class Destroyers (1949) of the Royal Australian Navy: Hmas Voyager, Hmas Duchess, Hmas Vampire, Hmas Vendetta


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Chapters: Hmas Voyager, Hmas Duchess, Hmas Vampire, Hmas Vendetta. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: HMAS Voyager (D04) was a Daring class destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), that was lost in a collision in 1964. Constructed between 1949 and 1957, Voyager was the first ship of her class to enter Australian service, and the first all-welded ship to be built in Australia. During her career, Voyager was deployed to the Far East Strategic Reserve on six occasions, but never fired a shot in anger. During the night of 10 February 1964, Voyager and the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collided off Jervis Bay, when the destroyer passed in front of the carrier during post-refit sea trials. Voyager was cut in two by the collision, sinking with the loss of 82 of the 314 people aboard. This was the largest loss of Australian military personnel in peacetime, and the subsequent investigations resulted in the holding of two Royal Commissionsthe only time in Australian history this has occurred. Voyager was laid down by the Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company at Sydney, New South Wales on 10 October 1949. She was launched on 1 May 1952 by Dame Pattie Menzies, wife of the Prime Minister, and commissioned into the RAN on 12 February 1957. She was the first all-welded ship to be constructed in Australia. During construction the cost of Voyager nearly tripled to AU 7 million. Voyager was armed with six 4.5-inch (110 mm) Mark V guns in three double turrets (A and B turret before the bridge, X turret on the aft superstructure), six Bofors 40 mm guns in three twin mounts (one each side on the forward superstructure, the third on the aft superstructure behind the rear funnel), two 5-tube 21-inch (530 mm) Petand torpedo launchers (located between the forward...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=333837


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156979679
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 30
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 59 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156979676
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Hmas Voyager, Hmas Duchess, Hmas Vampire, Hmas Vendetta
  • Width: 229 mm


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