![]() ![]() She rescued 225 survivors after both the capital ships had been sunk by Japanese naval aircraft. Vampire formed part of the escort of HM Ships Prince of Wales and Repulse on their ill fated sortie to attack Japanese landing forces at Kuantan on Malaysia's east coast. ![]() Other vessels, including the cruiser HMAS Hobart, the destroyer HMAS Vampire and the sloop HMAS Yarra, were ordered back to Australian waters to help meet this new threat. Prior to the outbreak of hostilities six corvettes of the RAN had already been based at Singapore. A war that was to last four years and see Australian ships and personnel operate across the vast expanse of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. As a consequence of these actions the Royal Australian Navy found itself facing a new enemy and fighting a new war. This assault was co-ordinated with the Japanese strike against the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor (7 December, local time). In the morning of 8 December 1941 Japanese troops commenced landing in Northern Malaya. ![]()
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