Australian Troop Convoy US.2 was met off Aden on the 12th by HMAS Hobart and destroyers HMS Decoy and HMS Defender. HMAS Sydney departed Colombo to join convoy US.3 in the area of the Coco Islands but was recalled to Colombo to sail for the Mediterranean.
Australian Naval History on 12 May 1940
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