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HMAS Sydney II

‘Fast and Furious’ – The Battle of Cape Spada: Part II

A.N. Other · Mar 24, 2022 ·

By Andreas Biermann Battles involving HMA Ships Sydney I and Sydney II illuminate the history of the RAN. Sydney I provided our first major victory of WWI in her epic engagement ...

Farewell Sydney and Kenneth Butler

A.N. Other · Mar 24, 2022 ·

By Darrell White ASMA The original oil on canvas artwork Farewell Sydney was commissioned by the Western Australia Cricket Association (now WA Cricket) and made possible by a donation from ...

HMAS Sydney 80th Anniversary Commemorative Speech

A.N. Other · Dec 7, 2021 ·

By Commodore Ivan Ingham AM RAN The following commemorative speech was delivered by Commodore Ingham at the HMAS Sydney (II) memorial in Geraldton, Western Australia on Friday 19 November 2021. ...

Occasional Paper 127: Commitment, Persistence and Science; Behind the Search for HMAS Sydney II

A.N. Other · Dec 7, 2021 ·

  By Commodore Bob Trotter OAM RAN & FIEAust (Retd)© Bob Trotter is an engineer and submarine specialist. He retired from the RAN in 1998 and after a period with ...

Action of Cape Spada – 19 July 1940

David Stratton · Aug 22, 2021 ·

Plan for operations against enemy submarines and shipping in the Aegean. On 18 July 1940, four destroyers departed Alexandria for an anti-submarine hunt towards the Kaso Strait and then along ...

Bombardment of Bardia, 21 June 1940.

David Stratton · Aug 22, 2021 ·

Operation MD 3 Bombardment of Bardia, 21 June 1940. An Allied force sailed on 20 June 1940 to carry out operation MD 3, the object was to destroy military objectives ...

Commander Guy Alexander Beange DSC RAN

A.N. Other · Dec 19, 2020 ·

By Hector Donohue  Commander Guy Alexander Beange DSC RAN served with the Royal New Zealand Navy Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War and trained as a Fleet Air Arm ...

Chief of Navy grants permission for the Australian White Ensign to fly over the HMAS Sydney (II) Memorial at Geraldton, WA

Editorial Staff · Sep 20, 2020 ·

By LCDR Desmond Woods The HMAS Sydney (II) Memorial at Geraldton in WA has become a place of pilgrimage for 65,000 visitors each year. Some 20,000 arrive by sea on ...

Book review: Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Royal Australian Navy in Vietnam 1965-72

Book reviewer · Mar 28, 2020 ·

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Royal Australian Navy in Vietnam 1965-1972. Second Edition. By John R. Carroll. First published in 2013, this second edition has been revised with ...

HMAS Sydney sailor Crosses the Bar  –  John Ravenscroft (1921 – 2018)

Swinden, Greg · Dec 10, 2018 ·

By Greg Swinden On 19 July 1940 one of the RAN’s more famous actions was fought in the Mediterranean.  HMAS Sydney’s destruction of the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni, and putting ...

Book Review: HMAS Sydney II in Peace and War

Book reviewer · Jun 30, 2017 ·

By Wes Olson, Privately Published at Hilton, WA in 2016, 610 Pages with maps and photographs. Available direct from the author at email: wes.dale@westnet.com.au. Price $60.00 plus postage. Aside from ...

HMAS SydneyII vs HSK Kormoran

A.N. Other · Sep 20, 2015 ·

By MIDN H. F. Roberts, RAN In joining the RAN MIDN Hannah Roberts follows her grandfather’s footsteps. She grew up on a eucalypt plantation in Maryborough, Queensland and received her education ...

The Role of the Admiralty in the Loss of HMAS Sydney

Kirsner, Professor Kim, (UWA) · Sep 20, 2015 ·

By Kim Kirsner Kim Kirsner is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame and from 1972-2006 was Professor at the School of Psychology, University of ...

Letter: Talbot-Booth and Sydney/Kormoran

Letter Writer · Jun 4, 2013 ·

Dear Editor No one on earth knows what information HMAS Sydney II was carrying in regards to ships’ identities either by book, signal or personal knowledge. What we do know ...

Sydney-Emden battle stamps of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands

A.N. Other · Dec 16, 2011 ·

  By Richard Breckon  Following from recent cover pictures of the June edition of the Review featuring Australian warships depicted on postage stamps the well known philatelist Richard Breckon has ...

Supply Chief Petty Officer Louis Nicholas Sampson (1907-1941)

Swinden, Greg · Jun 14, 2011 ·

Louis Nicholas ‘Sam’ Sampson born at St Peters, Adelaide on 30 September 1907 was the eldest child of Nicholas and Olive Sampson. In his early childhood he lived at Crystal ...

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Book Review: Sydney – Cipher and Search

Book reviewer · Dec 1, 2009 ·

Sydney – Cipher and Search By Captain Peter Hore RN (formerly Head of Defence Studies for the Royal Navy and currently chairman of the research committee of the Society for ...

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The Long Journey Home – Unknown HMAS Sydney Sailor

Swinden, Greg · Jun 21, 2009 ·

He was badly wounded and dying, but somehow he made it into the Carley Float. Whether he fell into it, was blown in by a bursting shell or was placed ...

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A Letter from HMAS Sydney

Barrey, R.B., Flying Officer · Sep 5, 2008 ·

Editor’s note: This letter was written by Flying Officer R.B. Barrey who was the pilot of the Walrus Amphibian aircraft in HMAS Sydney in 1941. He did not survive the ...

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Report of Engagement between HMAS Sydney and Kormoran

NHSA Webmaster · Jun 5, 2008 ·

On Wednesday 19th November 1941 we intended to lay mines at the approaches to Shark Bay off Carnarvon in Western Australia. It was intended to use the hours of darkness ...

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Obituary: Reinhold von Malapert

Newspaper, London Daily Telegraph · Mar 5, 2008 ·

This Obituary was first published in the UK’s Daily Telegraph and appears here with that paper’s kind permission Capitan-Leutnant Reinhold von Malapert, who has died aged 93, witnessed the last ...

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The RAN Band Ashore And Afloat

Periodical, Semaphore · Mar 5, 2008 ·

This article was first published in Semaphore, published by the Seapower Centre in 2007, and appears here with their kind permission. The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Band is a ceremonial unit ...

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Leadership: Vice Admiral Sir John Augustine Collins

Dennard, Luke, Midshipman, RAN · Dec 4, 2007 ·

This essay will discuss the role of Sir John Collins in reference to his career in the Mediterranean and Pacific theatres of World War II as captain and commodore in ...

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Reflections on the Sydney/Kormoran Battle 1941

Captain Peter Hore, RN · Dec 3, 2006 ·

Ninety two year old Baron Reinhold von Malapert is today the senior surviving officer of the German raider Kormoran and as Radio Officer he had a grandstand view of the ...

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Book Review: Flip Side War

Book reviewer · Sep 27, 2005 ·

Title: Flip Side War: Recollections of the author’s experiences in the RAN, World War II Author: Ean McDonald Publisher: Hesperian Press – Carlisle WA 6101 ISBN 0 85905 353 9 ...

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