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HMAS SYDNEY 11 Australia's greatest maritime tragedy at sea. Launched on 22/9/1934 HMAS Sydney was an impressive light cruiser at 555 feet long. Sydney 11 was the pride of the fleet, and served in many battles in WW2 with success. But on November 19th 1941 approximately 180km off the coast of shark bay in Western Australia, Sydney 11 was doing escort work, and was attacked by what it thought was a Dutch merchant vessel, but in fact was the German cruiser The Kormoran in disguise. They got into