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...
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Five ships of the Royal Australian Navy have been named HMAS Sydney, after Sydney, the capital city of New South Wales. HMAS Sydney (1912), a Town-class...
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HMAS Sydney, named for the Australian city of Sydney, was one of three modified Leander-class light cruisers operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN)...
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HMAS Sydney (DDG 42), named after the city of Sydney, New South Wales, is the third and final ship of the Hobart-class air warfare destroyers operated...
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Axis naval activity in Australian waters (redirect from Battle of the Tasman Sea)
Among the best-known attacks are the sinking of HMAS Sydney by a German raider in November 1941, the bombing of Darwin by Japanese naval aircraft in February...
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waters 1941: Sinking of HMAS Sydney 1942: Attack on Sydney Harbour 1942: Shelling of Newcastle 1942: Attack on the Dureenbee 1943: Shelling of Port Gregory...
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scuttle plans to sink HMAS Adelaide". Adelaide Now. Archived from the original on 16 April 2011. Retrieved 25 February 2011. "Decommissioned HMAS Adelaide towed...
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Confrontation. Canberra-class HMAS Adelaide (L01) HMAS Canberra (L02) Majestic class HMAS Sydney (R17) For the purpose of this article, a conventional...
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Thomas Welsby Clark (category History of Christmas Island)
1940, and was trained as a submarine detector at HMAS Cerberus and HMAS St Giles. Clark joined Sydney's crew on 19 August 1941, and was promoted to Able...
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major vessels were present in Sydney Harbour; the heavy cruisers USS Chicago and HMAS Canberra, and the light cruiser HMAS Adelaide.: 193–94 Other warships...
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Timothy (1982). HMAS Melbourne. North Sydney, NSW: George Allen & Unwin. ISBN 978-0-86861-284-3. OCLC 9753221. "HMAS Voyager (II)". HMA Ship Histories...
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HMAS Sydney (FFG 03) was an Adelaide-class guided-missile frigate of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The frigate was one of six modified Oliver Hazard...
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in 1998. The ship was sunk as a target by HMAS Farncomb in June 1999. Images and footage of the ship sinking have been used and adapted for various purposes...
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Conrad Primmer (category Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia)
Jack, who was killed in the sinking of HMAS Sydney. Following the war, Primmer played rugby for GPS and then the University of Queensland, while studying...
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Numerous attempts were made to find the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran, which were both lost in a sea battle...
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Battlecruiser HMAS Australia (1), p. 45 Duncan, Battlecruiser HMAS Australia (1), p. 47 Cubby, First Navy Flagship Found off Sydney Duncan, Battlecruiser HMAS Australia...
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1943. By 5 November the task force, composed of HMAS Australia, HMAS Shropshire, USS Ralph Talbot, HMAS Warramunga, Arunta and USS Helm, was in Milne...
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HMAS Canberra (I33/D33), named after the Australian capital city of Canberra, was a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) heavy cruiser of the Kent sub-class of...
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Maritime Museum alongside HMAS Vampire (D11) and HMAS Advance. In February 2018 Onslow was towed from the museum to Garden Island, Sydney, for regular maintenance...
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Garden Island (New South Wales) (redirect from HMAS Kattabul, New South Wales)
ridgeline is HMAS Kuttabul, the RAN's major administrative, training and logistics support establishment for the Sydney area. Although HMAS Kuttabul is...
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David Mearns (category Honorary recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia)
The Search for the Sydney (Pub. HarperCollins) 2009. The Shipwreck Hunter (Pub. Allen & Unwin) 2017. The Sinking of H.M.A.S. Sydney (Pub. HarperCollins)...
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Melbourne–Voyager collision (redirect from HMAS Voyager-HMAS Melbourne collision)
two warships of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN); the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne and the destroyer HMAS Voyager. On the evening of 10 February 1964...
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July 1912 – 19 November 1941). A son of Sir Herbert Mayo (1885–1972), Eric was lost in the sinking of HMAS Sydney. Janet, aged 26, was pregnant with their...
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Tom Lewis (author) (category Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia)
operations from northern Australia in WWII (Avonmore, 2023) The Sinking of HMAS Sydney: Living, Fighting and Dying in WWII cruisers(Big Sky, 2023) Forthcoming:...
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HMS Shropshire (redirect from HMAS Shropshire (1928))
the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) following the loss of sister ship HMAS Canberra. Commissioned as HMAS Shropshire, the ship remained in RAN service until...
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Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate (category Naval ships of the United States)
disposal of the two older frigates. HMAS Canberra was decommissioned on 12 November 2005 at naval base HMAS Stirling in Western Australia, and HMAS Adelaide...
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HMAS AE1 was an E-class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). She was the first submarine to serve in the RAN, and sank with all hands near what...
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Japanese submarine I-21 (category World War II submarines of Japan)
Burnett, approximately 420 miles (680 km) north of Sydney, it was towed back to Sydney by the corvette HMAS Mildura. On 12 November 1943 the troopship Cape...
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HMAS Sydney I – SMS Emden Memorial is a heritage-listed former foreign naval ship gun and now war memorial and war trophy located in Hyde Park, on the...
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transported. As part of combat system trials, Farncomb fired a live Mark 48 Mod 4 torpedo at HMAS Torrens on 14 June 1999, sinking the decommissioned destroyer...
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