HMAS Vendetta (D69)

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HMAS Vendetta in 1943
Career (United Kingdom (RN))
Name:	HMS Vendetta
Builder:	Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company
Laid down:	November 1916
Launched:	3 September 1917
Completed:	17 October 1917
Fate:	Transferred to RAN
Career (Australia (RAN))
Name:	HMAS Vendetta
Acquired:	October 1933
Commissioned:	11 October 1933
Decommissioned:	27 November 1945
Honours and awards:	Battle honours: Libya 1940-41 Matapan 1941 Greece 1941 Crete 1941 Mediterranean 1941 New Guinea 1943-44[1]
Fate:	Sold for disposal, 20 March 1946 Scuttled off Sydney, 2 July 1948
General characteristics
Class and type:	V class destroyer
Service record
Operations:	World War II • Battle of Cape Matapan • Evacuation of Greece

HMAS Vendetta (D69/I69) (formerly HMS Vendetta) was a V class destroyer that served in the Royal Navy (RN) from 1917 until 1933, and in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) from 1933 until 1945, when she was decommissioned and scuttled.

Contents 1 Construction 2 Operational history 2.1 RN service 2.2 Transfer to RAN 2.3 World War II 3 Decommissioning and fate 4 References

[edit] Construction

Vendetta was laid down by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited, at Govan, Scotland on 25 November 1916, launched on 3 September 1917, completed on 17 October 1917 and commissioned into the RN.

[edit] Operational history

[edit] RN service

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[edit] Transfer to RAN

Vendetta was transferred to the Royal Australian Navy and commissioned as HMAS Vendetta at Portsmouth on 11 October 1933.

Vendetta departed for Australia on 17 October 1933 and arrived in Sydney on 21 December 1933, paid off into reserve on 31 January 1934, recommissioned on 10 October 1934, but paid off into reserve on 1 June 1938.

[edit] World War II

Vendetta was recommissioned on 29 September 1938, and served in the Mediterranean where she participated in the Battle of Cape Matapan and was involved in the evacuation of Greece in April 1941.

[edit] Decommissioning and fate

Vendetta paid off for disposal on 27 November 1945. On 20 March 1946, she was sold to Penguin Propriety Limited at Sydney, and her hull was scuttled off Sydney Heads on 2 July 1948.

[edit] References

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