On This Day - 21 December 1939

A cartoon in the Australian magazine, The Bulletin, depicted a cruiser with a badly crumpled stern passing the flagship, and the Admiral turning to the Flag Captain:- ‘Send for her Captain Prendercast. I’ll teach him to play boomps a daisy’. The cartoon alluded to HMAS SYDNEY, (cruiser), colliding with a wharf at Fremantle some weeks previously.

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