The search for an Australian warship lost at sea during a battle in the Second World War received more than $1m in funding ...

In November 1941, HMAS Sydney encountered the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran off the coast of Western Australia. What followed was a close-range naval engagement that left Kormoran crippled — and ...

One of Australia's most intriguing maritime mysteries may soon be solved. HMAS Sydney and all 645 crew disappeared in November 1941 after a battle with the German ship HSK Kormoran off the coast of ...

HMAS Sydney will be decommissioned after 32 years of service at her homeport of Garden Island, Sydney on November 7, 2015. During the conduct of maritime operations spanning the globe HMAS Sydney, an ...

Follow the world's top shipwreck hunter, David Mearns, as he makes history by finding the HMAS Sydney II, solving one of Australia's most tragic and enduring mysteries. The Hunt for HMAS Sydney gives ...

The loss of the HMAS Sydney (II), pride of the Australian navy, has long been a source of pain and bewilderment. In waters off Western Australia in late 1941, following a successful tour in the ...

The Royal Australian Navy welcomed its newest Air Warfare Destroyer, HMAS Sydney, into the fleet in the first commissioning of an Australian warship at sea since World War II. Commissioned during a ...

JOHN HARRISON was only 4½ when his father, 36, went down with HMAS Sydney during its fateful encounter with the German raider HSK Kormoran in November 1941.

HMAS Sydney , seen here with the Naval Strike Missile launcher on its starboard side, as it carries out a formation entry into Sydney Harbour with HMAS Warramunga and New Zealand's HMNZS Manawanui .