At the close of the month she returned to Townsville escorting Bishopedale. Except for a visit to New Zealand in April 1937, the whole period was spent in Australian waters. For more than a year the 'Scrap Iron Flotilla' took part in the struggle for possession of the sea lines of communication linking east and west. Vendetta spent six days screening the fleet during these operations. The immediate object of these operations was the destruction of enemy forces in the Nibeiwa / Tummae area followed by a northward drive to Sidi Barrani on the coast, thus isolating Maktila Camp which represented the Italian Army's most advanced camp in Egypt. Item Details . She returned to Sydney on 1 April 1935 to spend the next four months 'swinging round the buoy' at Farm Cove. On 11 July Vendetta and Defender, en route from Tobruk to Alexandria, were attacked by moonlight by bombers. On 13 September the long expected Italian invasion of Egypt began. On 4 November convoys departed Port Said and Alexandria for Greece and Suda Bay (convoy AN6) and for Malta (convoy MW3). Vendetta was exercising in Jervis Bay at the time, and was ordered to proceed with all dispatch to render assistance. Nevertheless, the Australian destroyers were kept busy with their routine of escort and patrol work, singly and in pairs, which took them from one end of the Mediterranean to the other. The ship departed under tow in late 1986, bound for the breaker's yard in Taiwan. HMAS Vendetta's captain, Lieutenant Commander Cant, RAN, with his bridge team. In the Naval Gunfire Support (NGS) mode for example, the main Gunnery Fire Control System was capable of providing very accurate and rapid fire to a range of nine nautical miles (18000 yards) in normal mode and in excess of ten nautical miles (20,000 yards) in extended range mode. In late October 1970, Vendetta (II) again escorted HMAS Sydney (III) to Vung Tau, South Vietnam. Singapore experienced its worst blitz on 21 January 1942 when it was attacked by 125 bombers. In May 1966 Vendetta sailed once more for the Far East, escorting the troop carrier, Sydney (III), on that ship's fourth trip to Vietnam with Australian troops and equipment. Captain RJ Robertson, DSC, RAN in his day, cabin circa 1958. Three months after her return from 'up top', Vendetta was in Suva representing the RAN at celebrations marking the hundredth anniversary of Fiji's cession to Britain. Accompanied by Gunner (T) Mr J Lace RAN, Lieutenant Whitting proceeded to the naval base and reported to the Senior Naval Officer on the disposition of the ship's company with regard to the defence of the Singapore Harbour Board, as this important establishment had no defence of any kind against aerial attack. Mr Chow was a member of the Royal Navy's Unofficial Chinese Service, which provided tradesmen services for its naval ships. She also participated in Exercise SANDGROPER in Indian Ocean waters in late October. On 7 February she was back in Alexandria where she remained refitting until 10 March. In addition to these commitments the Navy was engaged in protecting the increased movement of convoys bringing supplies and reinforcements to the Middle East and Malta. Following a mishap to the machine during a typhoon in the Gulf of Carpentaria, the Petty Officers approached Hoover for a replacement. The Italian fleet boasted five battleships, 25 cruisers, 90 estroyers and nearly 100 submarines. Crew members of HMA Ships Stuart, Waterhen and Vendetta pose beside Vendetta, circa 1937. The Japanese bombed Singapore in the early hours of 8 December 1941, and at 04:20 one stick of bombs fell between Vendetta and Ghost Island, a distance of about 200 yards away. Paint and Glue are not included in the box , Recommended for Ages 18+ Skilled Modellers . This was a busy deployment, including involvement in Exercise PONY EXPRESS, and official visits to ports as diverse as Hong Kong, Kobe, Manila and Penang Vendetta returned to Australia in October 1961 and again refitted at Williamstown Dockyard. This operation, EXCESS, had as its objective the passage of a convoy from Gibraltar through the Mediterranean to Greece and Malta, and the simultaneous cover of fast convoys from Alexandria to Malta, and Malta to Alexandria, with a fourth slow convoy from Malta to Port Said and Alexandria. The operations on the Tobruk run, when she had been compelled to operate at maximum speeds, had taken its toll of her engines and she was in little better shape than her sister ship Vampire (I), which had been forced to withdraw at the close of May. On 8 July 1940 Vendetta completed her refit at Malta - too late to take part in the Battle of Calabria on 9 July 1940. On 6 March en route to Darwin, the ship rescued the crew of a small coastal trading vessel which had sunk in the Arafura Sea. On 11 March Vendetta departed Alexandria escorting convoy AN20, returning on 21 March with convoy AS21. Vendetta spent the first few days of August 1941 at Alexandria. In December 1964, President Johnson and the Prime Minister of South Vietnam, asked for an Australian military contribution. As a unit of the large British forces at sea during these operations, Vendetta departed Alexandria on 23 November escorting convoy MW4 (four ships) to Malta. Around its base was inscribed the names of the RAN destroyers in the order of their deployment. HMAS Parramatta (II), by skillful handling, escaped damage, shot down three aircraft and rescued 162 of Auckland's crew. War with Germany broke out on 3 September 1939, and on 14 October 1939 Stuart, Vendetta and Waterhen departed Sydney for Singapore, proceeding via Darwin and Lombok Strait. Despite spending Christmas and New Year on the 'gunline', Vendetta was able to make full preparations for Christmas festivities. During the deployment Vendetta was involved in Exercise BALI HAI, involving an amphibious landing with soldiers from the Royal Green Jackets and Royal Engineers; and Exercise SPRINGBOARD. Operations on patrol off the Libyan coast and escort duties between Alexandria and Tobruk, which was suffering steadily mounting attacks from the air, kept Vendetta busy until 17 April. On 27 December Vendetta returned to Alexandria where she undertook boiler cleaning until the close of the year. The transport of the troops and equipment began on 5 March with the first flight of 'Lustre Force' as it was known and continued until 24 April when 58,000 troops, with all their stores and fighting equipment, had been transported from Egypt to Greece. Her pennant number later changed to 'I69' in May 1940. The disabling of the carrier Illustrious by German air attack put an end to this plan and Admiral Rawlings' group was eventually frustrated by bad weather. On 9 January 1945 Vendetta bombarded the Anumb River area in New Guinea, firing 206 rounds of 4-inch ammunition at three specified targets. Anti-submarine exercises with HM Submarines Tabard and Tapir were scheduled during the return passage to Sydney. Vendetta spent some of this disastrous period screening the battle fleet south of Crete between 21 and 26 May. On 9 July Decoy was damaged by a near miss. Foreign warships taking part in the celebrations were the French sloop Amiral Charner and the Italian cruiser Armando Diaz, which was later sunk by a British submarine in the Mediterranean during World War II. HMAS Vendetta left the Mediterranean for the Far East following two years of continuous service. On 20 January she sailed for Morotai escorting a tanker and two Liberty Ships. On that day at sea with HMS Greyhound she sank an enemy schooner attempting to run the blockade, before proceeding to a rendezvous with an Alexandria bound convoy. 45,000 prisoners, 462 guns and 129 tanks were captured. Her hull was scuttled off Sydney Heads on 2 July 1948. Vendetta steaming past the north end of Garden Island as she departs Sydney for Devonport, Tasmania. This kind of tropical traveling is 'murder' on clothes. These were abandoned due to extremely heavy weather experienced when the two ships steamed through the eye of a cyclone off the Queensland coast. She had a standard load displacement of 1,090 tons, and a deep displacement of 1,490 tons. Fighter cover provided by the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm resulted in the destruction of eleven Italian aircraft without loss to themselves. In spite of this advantageous strategic position, however, they failed to halt the steady flow of men and material and excepting a few bomb splinter casualties in one ship all arrived safely. In 1963, the defence problems in Australia's region of interest escalated when the new nation of Malaysia was proclaimed. On 31 March Lieutenant David Logan, RAN assumed temporary command. The flower-draped coffin of former Prime Minister Joseph Lyons on the quarterdeck of HMAS Vendetta, 11 April 1939. She was at sea under tow for forty days, the total journey having taken 72 days and the tow having parted five times. Newsfeed. The destroyer was built by Williamstown Naval Dockyard and entered service in 1958. It was an uneventful period of routine work with little to relieve the monotony of long days at sea, for though Vendetta was at this time far from the operational areas she was nevertheless constantly at work, steaming more than 18,000 miles in the quarter ending September 1943. Seller: tan144au (3,243) 100%, Location: CROYDON HILLS, Ships to: AU, Americas, Europe, Asia, NZ, Item: 263478679939 1/350 Inter War Destroyer : HMAS Vendetta (V Class) [RAN] : Showcase Models. On 13 December the fleet returned to Alexandria. The naval contribution to the attack called for harassing fire by Terror and the inshore gunboats all day on 2 January 1941, followed by a heavy bombardment by the fleet on 3 January with further harassing fire from Terror and the gunboats from dawn to 16:00 hours. On 2 December Vendetta sailed from Port Said with Voyager (I) in company, escorting convoy AN8 bound for Athens, thence to Alexandria. The months preceding the outbreak of World War II were spent mainly in harbour, interspersed with exercises in the waters off New South Wales and a special cruise to convey the body of former Prime Minister JA Lyons from Sydney to Devonport, Tasmania where he was buried on 13 April 1939. October opened with Vendetta at Alexandria preparing to join the battle fleet at sea on 2 October for Operation BMQ, a fleet sweep into the north west Mediterranean. Two days later, on 5 October, Vendetta moved under her own power for the last time when she slipped from her moorings and was secured alongside the Cruiser Wharf at Garden Island. The refit was completed on 18 August. The destroyer was built by Williamstown Naval Dockyard and entered service in 1958. This was the first of a series of convoys to Suda Bay. HMS Plymouth (F126), HMAS Vendetta (D08), HMS Salisbury (F32), HMS Cambrian (D85), HMS Albion (R07), HMAS Quiberon (F03), HMNZS Otago (F111) and HMS Duchess (D154), Malaya, 1963 [1200 x ⦠HMAS Vendetta was one of three Daring class destroyers built for and operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The badge is cast using a two ⦠While berthed at Sembewang in early November 1978, the Commanding Officer, Commander MR Freeman, RAN, was informed that the ship would pay off in June 1979 to help provide personnel for the new guided missile frigates then under construction in the USA. Vendetta spent the period of October to December 1943 based at Brisbane on escort duty in Queensland waters. On 21 April she resumed escort duties to the 'Lustre' convoys joining AN29, the last one to leave Alexandria. Kit contains solid resin hull (waterline), finely detailed resin parts, photoetched parts, decals, and bonus tugboat. Disaster was only narrowly averted. The losses sustained, six ships, were all vessels proceeding in the convoys but not part of the 'Lustre' movement or vessels returning empty to Egypt. On 30 August the fleet, including Vendetta, sailed from Alexandria to join Force F and to cover the passage of convoy MF2 from Alexandria to Malta (consisting of the Polish destroyer Garland for Gibraltar and a merchant ship convoy (AP2) to Alexandria). The ship visited Adelaide, Fremantle, Darwin, Melbourne and Brisbane during the first half of 1979. 1/350 INTER WAR Destroyer : HMAS Vendetta (V Class) [RAN] : Showcase Models - $58.48. Following the mercy dash, the Naval Board approved the immediate promotion of Leading Engineer Mechanic WJ Robinson to Acting Petty Officer, as a result of his presence of mind and devotion to duty under arduous circumstances while in charge of Vendetta's 'B' Boiler Room. During this deployment Vendetta's readiness was tested with involvement in Exercises SEACUB and SEALION. 1:700 Military WWII Australia 1/350 1/600 1/700 1:350 1:600 Daring class destroyer HMAS Vendetta Model Monkey ModelMonkey Model_Monkey naambord name plate nameplate navne skilt navneskilt nimikyltti placa de identificacao placa de nombre plaque plaque signaletique targhetta typenschild V class In August Vendetta continued operating with the New Guinea escort group until mid month when she proceeded to Brisbane for refit, which kept her in dockyard hands throughout September. From then on they were subjected to constant air attack by day and night. Post refit trials and workup occupied the period September to December 1976. AU$27.95 AU$24.95. The engineer officer was in charge of the stoker fire party. In May she continued her role of destroyer transport, landing 501 troops and 53 tons of stores at Madang between 1 and 6 May, before once more returning to the mainland for repairs which kept her in dockyard hands for most of the remainder of the month. Vendettaâs cruise book mentions âthe look of joy on the faces of the crew of Brisbane (II) as we steamed alongside in Subic Bay to relieve them. In April 1971, Vendetta (II) returned to Sydney 'west-about' and during the following months, the ship served in Australian and New Guinea waters. The capture of Bardia ended naval offensive action in the Western Desert Campaign until the attack on Tobruk on 21 January, the Navy reverting to the protection of supplies. In March she continued escort duties, screening Taroona on three voyages between New Guinea and Townsville. The Australian built 'Daring' Class destroyers were similar to the Royal Navy vessels, but with modifications for Australian conditions. In the air the enemy reaction was mainly confined to attacks on Convoy MF2 during which one ship was hit. Naturally, he took every opportunity to emulate Jack Brabham and, inevitably, he was stopped by police. HMAS Vendetta went on in 1942 to make a name for herself in other parts of the Mediterranean, North Africa, Tobruk, Greece and Crete. From 2 January 1940 the Flotilla formed the 19th Destroyer Division for service with the Mediterranean Fleet. HMAS Kanimbla L51 (ex USS Saginaw LST-1188 Landing Platform Amphibious Ship) 1378 x 339: HMAS Leeuwin A245 (Survey Ship ... HMAS Vendetta (Destroyer) - Australia (1942) 800 x 247: HMAS Wallaroo (Bathurst-class Corvette) (1942) 2817 x 2397: HMAS Yarra U77 ( Grimsby class Sloop) (1940) Vendetta and the other four ships were commissioned in the Royal Australian Navy at Portsmouth on 11 October 1933 to form the Australian Destroyer Flotilla, later to become famous as the 'Scrap Iron Flotilla' during World War II. Moreover, the Allies had lost the support of the French fleet, which had provided seven capital ships and nineteen cruisers, and had acquired a new enemy in Italy with her menacing naval potential. HMAS Vendetta's ceremonial bell. Malta was in the past. They included six cruisers, nineteen destroyers, three escort vessels and corvettes and lighters. Following her decommissioning, Vendetta languished in the 'mothball' fleet at Sydney until 1986, when she was sold to Ming Hsieh Steel Mill on behalf of Hodland Enterprises of Taiwan. This was the occasion for Captain Willis Brisbane (II)'s Commanding Officer to pass 'the weight' to Vendetta's Commanding Officer, Commander Johnston, symbolising the official handover of gunline duties. The three months ending September 1943 were all spent in Queensland and New South Wales, mainly escorting Special Ships and on anti-submarine exercises. At Palau Vendetta anchored alongside the American battleships California, Pennsylvania, New Mexico and Mississippi, fresh from their victorious action in the Surigao Strait against Vice Admiral Nishimura's forces. Trials and workup continued in August, and by early September, Vendetta was ready for attachment to the United States Navy's 7th Fleet in Vietnam waters. With the assistance of the Singapore Harbour Board, the 12-pounder gun was mounted on the wharf astern of Vendetta, four machine gun posts were built in the vicinity of King's Dock, and all available Lewis guns were mounted. Indonesia opposed this and embarked on a policy of 'confrontation', threatening to 'crush' the new nation. During the ship's visit to Sandakan, the Commanding Officer, Commander Alan Ferris, became ill and was taken ashore. Vendetta operating close to shore in New Guinea waters. Vendetta's decommissioning crew photographed during her final visit to Brisbane, 25 June 1979. When some seven miles out of Keppel Harbour, 54 bombers passed overhead on their way to bomb Singapore, where they severely damaged the King's Dock including the wharf which Vendetta had vacated just two hours before. The remainder was taken up by Squadron cruises, exercises and work as a seagoing training ship. It reached Suda Bay in Crete on 24 April where it had been diverted owing to the chaotic conditions at the Piraeus and the decision made that day to withdraw British forces from Greece. In January 1959, Vendetta's Petty Officers pitched in £1 each to buy a washing machine for their mess, to supplement the somewhat spartan facilities onboard. Vendetta in company with Quiberon during their depoloyment to Noumea in 1962. Mrs N Waller, widow of the late Captain HML Waller DSO RAN. On the day Vendetta returned to Alexandria, 9 December 1940, the British Army under General Archibald Wavell began its offensive in the Western Desert. But the operation was not accomplished without loss; Diamond and Wryneck of the 10th Flotilla were sunk after rescuing Slamat survivors, as were the transports Ulster Prince and Pennland. During her early career, Vendetta was deployed to the Far East Strategic Reserve on multiple occasions. Early the following year, also off Reval, she assisted in the capture of the Bolshevik destroyer Lennuk. HMAS Voyager, D04. The ship did, however, recover four bodies from the sea. A squadron of 54 planes bombed the city. In the entire operation, in which Perth (I) and all of the Australian destroyers took part, 50,672 troops were evacuated, about 80% of the original forces landed. Two days later she sailed escorting convoy AN13 for Piraeus, returning on 27 January as part of the escort for the fifteen ships of AS13. The naval role during the first stage of the operations was to provide harassing fire at Maktila and Sidi Barrani, and this was begun by the monitor Terror and the gunboats HM Ships Aphis and Ladybird, supported by the destroyers HM Ships Jervis, Janus and Nubian during the night of 8/9 December. The Flag was shown in some very hospitable ports including Singapore, Labuan, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Subic Bay, Cebu City and Sandakan. Vendetta's duties at this time, however, were confined to local escort. The same day, Vampire and Voyager departed Fremantle to join them at Singapore. In early 1969, Vendetta underwent pre-refit trials and commenced a six month refit at Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney, during which both propeller shafts were removed. Meanwhile, with the German threat to the Balkans beginning to take shape (Bulgaria joined the Axis forces on 1 March), Britain decided to send military aid to Greece, a decision which imposed a further heavy commitment on the Mediterranean Fleet. The same look was evident amongst crew members of Vendetta when Hobart (II) pulled alongside seven months later." Vendetta was one of 25 V class destroyers built for the Royal Navy during World War I. This led to the company presenting a brand new washing machine to Vendetta's Petty Officers' Mess. The Australian Government made plain its resolve that if Malaysia was subjected to invasion or subversive activity, then Australian military assistance would be added to that of Malaysia and Britain to defend the new nation. Vendetta's ship's company generously donated $A800 to Mr Chow's family in Hong Kong. The following day she sailed to search for a crashed Allied bomber, and sighting a flare some 60 miles off the Timor coast, rescued four survivors. The ship was extensively modernised, with a new superstructure and an enclosed bridge, new navigation radar and long-range air early warning radar, action information centre upgraded, communications equipment renewed, messdecks improved, and gun turrets updated. IN 1969 HMAS Vendetta sailed into Vietnamâs Da Nang Harbour firing on targets. On 20 October Vendetta sailed from Alexandria for the last time after almost two years continuous Mediterranean service. When a squadron of 27 planes flying low over Keppel Harbour suddenly appeared astern of Vendetta, the 12-pounder immediately went into action. The following day, 27 March, Vendetta joined the Vice Admiral Light Forces (Vice Admiral HD Pridham-Wippell) commanding a force which comprised Orion (Flag), Ajax, Perth, Gloucester, and the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla, under orders to join the battle fleet of Warspite, Barham, Valiant, Formidable, and nine destroyers including the 10th Flotilla (under Captain HML Waller, RAN) south of Crete late on the following day if no developments occurred. On completion of this assignment, Vendetta sailed via Hong Kong for more operational patrols in the Malacca Straits area followed by the usual round of training activities. This name was later re-introduced for a DARING-Class destroyer during 1954. This included a period escorting the Royal Navy commando carrier HMS Albion. Nameplates are available in paintable acryclic plastic and several different real metals including brass, bronze, silver and gold-plated brass. Vendetta completed her refit on 9 November and the following day sailed from Malta escorting the monitor HMS Terror to Suda Bay and then the SS Brisbane Star to Alexandria. The passage to the Piraeus, virtually the only port available for disembarkation, led past enemy bases in the Dodecanese, from which they were able to launch attacks against the British line of communication. On 17 August Vendetta sailed from Alexandria in company with of the battle fleet, HM Ships Warspite, Malaya and Ramillies, for Operation MB2- the bombardment of Bardia and Fort Capuzzo on the Libyan coast. FOR SALE! Vendetta arrived back in Sydney on 11 April 1970. The ship was sold for demolition and her hulk was scuttled off Sydney Heads on 2nd July 1948. Later in the same month as one of the British naval units supporting the White Russian forces, Vendetta engaged and drove ashore on Devil's Rock near Reval, the Bolshevik destroyer Spartak. Following a four month refit in early 1963, in mid-July Vendetta sailed from Sydney, via Townsville and Darwin, for another term of duty 'up top' as an operational unit of the Commonwealth Strategic Reserve. Vendetta was relieved by HMAS Hobart (II) at Subic Bay in late March 1970. Vendetta alongside Sembawang, Singapore with units of an RAN task group and other Commonwealth warships. On 14 December Vendetta joined the Inshore Squadron screening Terror on 15 and 16 December while the monitor bombarded Bardia. Meanwhile, the effort to reinforce and supply the troops in Crete was proceeding in spite of German control in the air, and on 11 May Vendetta sailed to escort AP31 for Suda Bay, returning to Alexandria on 16 May. The next day she arrived safely at Palembang in Sumatra. On 12 December 1918 in the Baltic she rescued 430 of the total crew of 470 of HMS Cassandra when that vessel struck a mine and sank. As the ship steamed towards the dredge, rising seas and high winds made conditions extremely difficult in her boiler rooms. 'Scrap Iron Destroyers: The Story of HMA Ships Stuart, Vampire, Vendetta, Voyager and Waterhen' by LJ Lind and A Payne - published by the Naval Historical Society of Australia, Garden Island 1976. The following day she was at sea again with convoy AN22 which arrived safely in spite of a series of attacks from torpedo aircraft on 24 March.