AUSTRALIA’S LOSS
DESTROYER VAMPIRE i (Recd. 7.45) Melbourne. April 22. The Australian destroyer Vamj pire (1090 tons) was lost as a rej suit of enemy action during rc- • cent operations in the Bay of Bengal, according to an announcement made by Mr. J. Curtin. I Most of the crew were saved, but 1 six were killed and one died of ! wounds. Two, including the com- . manding officer, Commander W. ' Moran, are missing, believed killed. I This is Australia's sixth naval loss, ■ the others being the cruisers Sydney ; and Perth, the destroyer Waterhen : and the sloops Parramatta and Yarra. j Mr. Curtin said that, like other units of the small Australian Navy, the Vampire had been lighting for the democracies near and far from Australian snores and had been in the thick of the fighting, from the Mediterranean to the Malaya. Only recently she and a British destroyer attacked a superior Japanese force and sank one Japanese destroyer and damaged another. The Vampire was completed during 1917-18.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 94, 23 April 1942, Page 5
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