The author of a book about HMAS Sydney has told an inquiry into the ship's sinking that Australian naval instructions at the time were "a recipe for disaster". All 645 crew members died when the ...
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No survivors: How HMAS Sydney was lost in 1941
In November 1941, HMAS Sydney encountered the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran off the coast of Western Australia. What followed was a close-range naval engagement that left Kormoran crippled — and ...
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will attend a memorial service today for the crew of HMAS Sydney, which was sunk with all hands in 1941. The service is at Saint Andrew's Cathedral in Sydney at 11:00am (AEST ...
A NEW expedition aims to create an unprecedented 3D reconstruction of HMAS Sydney II’s hull, 73 years after Australia’s greatest naval tragedy off the WA coast. Sunk on November 19, 1941, by the HSK ...
The first launch of the SM-6 is a ‘step-change’ in the lethality, air and missile defence, and long-range strike capabilities of Australia’s surface combatant fleet, as it undergoes a series of ...
Australian navy light cruiser HMAS Sydney sunk off the coast off Western Australia in November 1941 after a battle with German raider Kormoran. The foreign warship had been disguised as a Dutch ...
A coded dictionary. German testimony. For decades that’s all we had to understand the loss of a warship and its entire crew. But the discovery of HMAS Sydney’s wreck revealed the shot which sealed the ...
A new book reveals that it was a technique known as cognitive psychology that enabled Australian scientists to locate the lost ships with almost pinpoint accuracy off Western Australia. This forensic ...
The pride of Australia’s navy, including the biggest vessel of the fleet, and two other warships have docked in Hobart after completing tactical training exercises on the east coast. DETAILS > Nearly ...
The Royal Australian Navy welcomed its newest Air Warfare Destroyer, HMAS Sydney, into the fleet in the first commissioning of an Australian warship at sea since World War II. Commissioned during a ...
HMAS Sydney will be decommissioned after 32 years of service at her homeport of Garden Island, Sydney on November 7, 2015. During the conduct of maritime operations spanning the globe HMAS Sydney, an ...
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