Posted on 03/16/2008 4:25:17 PM PDT by Gomez
The group searching for HMAS Sydney has found the wreckage of the World War II Australian warship off the coast of Western Australia, the ABC has confirmed.
The breakthrough by the Finding Sydney Foundation comes less than 24 hours after it announced it had located the wreckage of the German raider Kormoran, which also sank after a battle with the Sydney in November 1941.
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OMG! They found her! Prayers for her dead!
Interesting. Also interesting is the comment by one of the sailor’s sons - a moonbat - who thinks the wreck was ‘hidden’ so long by the government, who had something to ‘hide’. Sheeesh.
He should move here and register as a Dimocrat. Then he could get in on the Bush blew up the WTC crowd. It’s nice to see that we share idiots with other countries.
> Also interesting is the comment by one of the sailor’s
> sons - a moonbat - who thinks the wreck was ‘hidden’
> so long by the government, who had something to ‘hide’.
> Sheeesh.
Depends on which government.
The Third Reich might have some ‘splainin to do.
A quick look about the web says:
1. only major surface vessel sunk with no survivors
2. only body ever recovered had a 9mm bullet wound
’ only major surface vessel sunk with no survivors’
Well the Hood came close with only three.
It’s astonishing that the Hood had any survivors in view of the main magazines being hit.
There were survivors on the Arizona and HMS Barham,both those ships suffered main magazine explosions.
I hope they leave the dead on board and let them rest in peace undisturbed.
THAT is a huge ship.
Her Majesty's Australian Ship.
Australian Ship
My bad.
Still why doe they still see the Queeen as important today?
Never understood that.
‘It’s astonishing that the Hood had any survivors in view of the main magazines being hit.’
Not to mention the temp of the water they fished them from.
There can’t possibly be remains on board, can there?
Maybe they Nat Geo will do a Battle 360 HMAS Sydney.
Arizona was in port, which made rescue efforts easier. Further, when the Arizona settled there were still portions of the ship above water, which made survival more likely. The wreck only slowly settled into the mud under Pearl Harbor over the course of time, and the superstructure was cut off.
Interesting. Now maybe some questions will be answered.
Barham was actually in the process of abandoning ship when the magazines blew.Anyway,I thought that the point was that Eurale was amazed that anyone survived the explosion.
She is there to remind politicians that no matter how popular and powerful they are, they remain servants.
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