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For decades following the loss of Sydney there was no resolution as to her fate; until 2008 when all was dramatically revealed.

How could a complete ship's company of 645 officers and men vanish without trace?

The German cruiser SMS Konigsberg was the hard-to-kill fleet in being that occupied 20 Allied warships for 9 months in WWI before finally sinking her.

Born an elegant ship in 1907 the German cruiser SMS Konigsberg found herself at large in the Indian Ocean and on African station at the beginning of WWI.

The survivors of the SMS Koingsberg sinking in Africa in 1915 went on to fight for the rest of the war as jungle foot infantry

The First World War battle at Gallipoli and the World War 2 sinking and eventual recovery of the HMAS Sydney are significant events in Australia's military history.