1936 HMAS Sydney

July 1936. Movietone News. HMAS Sydney was a light cruiser of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) between 1934 and 1941. Sydney had great success in the first years of World War II, but controversy and mystery surrounded the loss of the battle-hardened ship and her crew in November 1941. She was sunk on 19 November 1941 with the loss of all 645 hands, which represented the greatest loss of life in an Australian warship, and the largest Allied vessel to sink with all hands during the war. She was classified by the RAN as a Modified Leander class cruiser, although these ships are sometimes known as the "Perth class" or the "Amphion class". As Sydney was originally intended for the Royal Navy, she was known as HMS Phaeton for part of her construction. The ship was bought by the Australian government and renamed before she was launched. After years of searching, the wreckage of the German vessel that sank HMAS Sydney, the auxiliary cruiser Kormoran was found on 12 March 2008. On 17 March 2008 the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that the wreck of HMAS Sydney had also been discovered, on the previous day. Sydney was found 150 kilometres (81 nmi) from Shark Bay, Western Australia and 22.6 kilometres (12.2 nmi) from the Kormoran.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Sydney_(1934)

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[ToonandBBfan]

I just love the blast noise off the 6 inch guns at 0:56 and 1:04

[hmasmelbourne]

LoL, the reporter sounds like Montgomery Burns from the simpson. Anyway, very informative clip.

[ToonandBBfan]

Its tragic what happened to Sydney

But this is a Wonderful video of her in happier times- many thanks