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 ...

CANBERRA, Australia – The wreck of battle cruiser HMAS Sydney has been found off western Australia, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced Monday, ending one of the country's most enduring maritime ...

CANBERRA, Australia – A search for an Australian navy battle cruiser lost in 1941 has led to the wreck of the German raider that sank it, the prime minister said Sunday. Both the HMAS Sydney and the ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. After the mighty tempest of day, fire raged into night, until there was darkness and nothing but the waves and the wind. Two ships had ...

The wreck of battle cruiser HMAS Sydney has been found off western Australia, it was announced today - ending one of the country's most enduring maritime mysteries. The Sydney sank on November 19, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. SEARCHERS have discovered the wreck of the HSK Kormoran, the disguised World War II German raider that destroyed HMAS Sydney in ...

A search for an Australian navy battle cruiser lost in 1941 has led to the wreck of the German raider that sank it, the prime minister said Sunday. Both the HMAS Sydney and the German vessel, the DKM ...

HMAS Sydney II was a light cruiser. Her job was to escort vulnerable ships, as well as to search the seas for hostile ships — like Kormoran. The initial account of the battle that unfolded on the ...

Edmund Büttner vividly remembers seeing shells from his ship smash into the bridge of the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney, killing nearly every officer before the crippled and burning warship sank with ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. IT WAS early on a November evening in 1941 that Korvettenkapitan Theodore Detmers saw the pride of the Australian Navy heading straight ...