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HMAS Sydney I 1913-1928 Sydney I, was a Chatham class Light Cruiser commissioned on 26 June 1913. The ship's major action in WW1, occurred on the morning of 9 November 1914, when ordered to engage the German light cruiser EMDEN off the Cocos Islands. Using her superior speed and fire power SYDNEY badly damaged EMDEN with her six inch guns.
She commissioned at Portsmouth on 26 June 1913 under the command of Captain John CT Glossop RN. She departed Portsmouth on 25 July 1913 and first arrived on the Australia Station at Albany on 19 September 1913.
It was a silent commemoration of two great episodes in Australian naval history. WOMEN IN TEARS. The Officers and men of HMAS Sydney march through Martin place in February, 1941, to a hero’s ...
Sep 3, 2019 · A third destroyer, HMAS Warrego was commissioned at Sydney in June 1912 and in 1913 the battlecruiser, HMAS Australia and the light cruisers, HMAS Melbourne and Sydney arrived in Australian waters, concluding on the 4th October 1913, with the new Australian Fleet entering Sydney harbour for the first time.
Jun 23, 2016 · June 23, 2016. 0. 280. On this Day in 1913 HMAS Sydney was commissioned at Portsmouth under the command of Captain John Glossop. His lifelong association with Australia began in 1888 when he arrived as a midshipman in HMS Orlando, flagship of the Australian Squadron.
Nov 19, 2021 · Thomas Welsby Clark, 20, joined the HMAS Sydney just four months before it was ambushed by a German raider in the Indian Ocean in 1941. All 645 men on board the ship died - one of Australia's best ...
SPADA 1940. MEDITERRANEAN 1940-43. ‘Kormoran’ 1941. On 8 July 1933 the ship that would become Sydney (II) was laid down as HMS Phaeton in the shipyard of Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, at Wallsend-on-Tyne in England. The following year she was purchased, in build, by the Australian Government and renamed Sydney, in memory of her ...
