The loss of the HMAS Sydney (II), pride of the Australian navy, has long been a source of pain and bewilderment. In waters off Western Australia in late 1941, following a successful tour in the ...
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 ...
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 ...
During World War II, the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney encountered what appeared to be a harmless cargo ship—but it was actually a heavily armed German commerce raider in disguise. As the two ships ...
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 ...
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 ...