AAP General News (Australia)
04-04-2008
Fed:First images of HMAS Sydney wreckage reveal extent of damage
CANBERRA, April 4 AAP - The first images of a sunken HMAS Sydney reveal a shattered
hulk with German shell holes clearly visible.
The first seven images, now available on the Finding Sydney Foundation website, were
obtained yesterday by a special remotely-operated submersible deployed from the survey
vessel Geosounder.
The Sydney wreck was found last month - 66 years after it was lost with all its 645
crew - off the coast of Western Australia.
The Australian warship sank after a gun battle in November 1941 with the German mercantile
raider Kormoran, the wreck of which was also found last month.
Search director David Mearns said the name Sydney was not visible anywhere on the sunken hulk.
"But there was no mistaking that the wreck before us was that of HMAS Sydney," he said
in a web diary detailing progress of the search.
"Her damage matched perfectly to what we expected from the side-scan sonar imagery
and from the German accounts of the battle."
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