HMA Ships SYDNEY and MELBOURNE, (cruisers), were damaged when the destroyers HOSTE and NEGRO collided and sank off Norway. Both ships lost a man and seven were injured when the destroyers’ depth charges exploded.
Australian Naval History on 20 December 1916
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