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Photo Galleries | Updated 7 years ago. HMAS Sydney (II) - Shell exit hole in mild steel plate. Possibly wreckage from A turret. HMAS Sydney (II) - Forward screen of superstructure. Captain’s sea cabin. HMAS Sydney (II) - Shell hits on ship‘s starboard side below torpedo tube mount.
On 19 November 1941, the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran engaged each other in a battle off the coast of Western Australia. Sydney, with Captain Joseph Burnett commanding, and Kormoran, under Fregattenkapitän Theodor Detmers, encountered each other approximately 106 nautical miles (196 km; 122 mi ...
On 17 March 2008 the Australian Government announced that the wreckage of both HMAS Sydney and the German raider Kormoran had been found, approximately 112 nautical miles off Steep Point, Western Australia. Kormoran is lying at a depth of 2,560 metres; Sydney, approximately 12 nautical miles away, is at 2,470 metres.
An expedition to survey the historic World War II shipwrecks of HMAS Sydney (II) and the German raider HSK Kormoran has produced new photographic evidence which appears to confirm why Sydney was so quickly disabled, leading to catastrophic damage and the devastating loss of everyone on board.
The wrecks of both ships were lost until 2008; Sydney was found on 17 March, five days after her adversary. Sydney ' s defeat is commonly attributed to the proximity of the two ships during the engagement, ... Sinking of the HMAS Sydney at National Archives of Australia; HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd, The Finding Sydney Foundation (official website)
The tragic loss of HMAS Sydney II along with its entire crew of 645 following the battle remains as Australia’s worst naval disaster and sent shockwaves throughout the Australian community in November 1941. The HSK Kormoran also sank after the battle and more than 78 German sailors died.
This paper examines the mystery surrounding the sinking of HMAS Sydney in the Indian. Ocean on November 19, 1941, by the German raider SV Kormoran. All hands on HMAS. Sydney were lost - 645 men; these men's deaths constituted about one-third of Australia's naval losses in World War II.
