HMAS Vampire
HMAS Vampire is a memorial in Sydney, New South Wales. HMAS Vampire is situated nearby to National Maritime Museum, as well as near the bus station Maritime Museum (389 terminus).Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Darling Harbour and National Maritime Museum.
Darling Harbour
Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
Darling Harbour is a leisure and entertainment precinct, in central Sydney. It extends to Pyrmont, Ultimo and the business district of Barangaroo, and contains The Star and Pyrmont Bay, including Harris St.
National Maritime Museum
Museum
Photo: Saberwyn, Public domain.
The Australian National Maritime Museum is a federally operated maritime museum in Darling Harbour, Sydney. After considering the idea of establishing a maritime museum, the federal government announced that a national maritime museum would be constructed at Darling Harbour, tied into the New South Wales state government's redevelopment of the area for the Australian bicentenary in 1988.
HMAS Vampire
Photo: Saberwyn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
HMAS Vampire was the third of three Australian-built Daring-class destroyers serving in the Royal Australian Navy. One of the first all-welded ships built in Australia, she was constructed at Cockatoo Island Dockyard between 1952 and 1959, and was commissioned into the RAN a day after completion.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pyrmont and City Centre.
Pyrmont
Suburb
Photo: Adam.J.W.C., CC BY 3.0.
Pyrmont is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 2 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney.
City Centre
Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
The Sydney City Centre was where Governor Arthur Phillip first raised the British flag on Australian soil in January 1788, the earliest site of European settlement in Australia.
The Hungry Mile
Neighborhood
The Hungry Mile is the name harbourside workers gave to the docklands area of Darling Harbour East, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in the Great Depression.
HMAS Vampire
- Type: Memorial
- Category: historic site
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-33.86959° or 33° 52′ 11″ southLongitude
151.19923° or 151° 11′ 57″ eastOpen location code
4RRH45JX+5MOpenStreetMap ID
node 11535944928OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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