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The wreckage found may explain how a powerful warship, the pride of Australia's navy, could be sunk with no survivors in 1941 by an armed merchant ship, the German raider Kormoran.

The wreck of HMAS Sydney will become a war grave to protect the remains of the 645 Australian sailors killed during a bloody battle at sea in World War II.

It was also the largest vessel of any country to be lost with no survivors during the Second World War.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/080316/2/1666a.html

Downunder,
Was that the same HMAS Sydney that sank the German raider Emden in Nov. 1914?

Doug Ratchford, 'Canso42'

No Doug, this was the second Sydney.

"After being laid down in 1933 for the Royal Navy as HMS Phaeton , Sydney was purchased (before launching) by the Australian Government in 1934 and renamed in memory of the earlier Sydney that destroyed the German cruiser Emden in 1914."

http://www.navy.gov.au/spc/history/ships/sydney2.html