Posted on Nov 19, 2016

Wreck of HMAS Sydney, reconstruction - YouTube

SGT John " Mac " McConnell

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The battle between the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran was a single ship action that occurred on 19 November 1941, off the coast of Western Australia. Sydney, with Captain Joseph Burnett commanding, and Kormoran, under Fregattenkapitän (Commander) Theodor Detmers, encountered each other approximately 106 nautical miles (196 km; 122 mi) off Dirk Hartog Island. Both ships were destroyed in the half-hour engagement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_between_HMAS_Sydney_and_German_auxiliary_cruiser_Kormoran
https://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/hmas_sydney/action/
https://youtu.be/4NCF5c19pIA

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Wow what a story looks like this Sydney must have been like the like the HMS Hood looks like maybe you that radar got a lucky shot and blow up the magazine after for a while the German ship was going down. How intriguing wow what a lot of work and I'm so glad that that one surviving Seaman who was transferred weeks before is able to put the context of the ship to the historians and researchers.

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