To: tcrlaf
Yes, and that explains why she sank - but it doesn’t explain why there were no survivors.
Kormoran and Sydney moved apart after the battle, both ships badly damaged and doomed. Sydney was last seen from the Kormoran down by the bow and on fire, but there should have been plenty of time for surviving crew to have abandoned ship.
6 posted on
04/04/2008 12:19:23 AM PDT by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
To: naturalman1975
> Yes, and that explains why she sank - but it doesn’t explain why there were no survivors.
Sharks? USS Indianapolis CA-35 had pretty bad luck with sharks, why not the HMAS Sydney?
8 posted on
04/04/2008 12:59:54 AM PDT by
DieHard the Hunter
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To: naturalman1975
Yes, and that explains why she sank - but it doesn’t explain why there were no survivors. The area where the HMAS Sydney sank is called “Shark Bay”.
Rescue efforts started several days later.
31 posted on
04/10/2008 1:38:08 AM PDT by
MHalblaub
("Easy my friends, when it comes to the point it is only a drawing made by a non believing Dane...")
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