Articles related to "Royal Australian Navy"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?
Harry fitted no convention - whether as an intrepid naval commander or treading the boards with Laurence Olivier, life was simply a test. That he passed with honours!
Australia has operated two aircraft carriers in her Navy, HMAS Melbourne is by far the better known, but she had a sister ship, HMAS Sydney.
Overshadowed by the Dreadnought battleships, it was Admiral Fisher's Battlecruisers of the Royal Navy that patrolled the oceans in the last days of the British Empire.
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