H.M.A.S Syndey found

[Dry Rot]

Anyone else hear that story last night that the Sydney had sent out a boarding party to retrieve an Enigma code machine?

 

[RUNVS]

Anyone else hear that story last night that the Sydney had sent out a boarding party to retrieve an Enigma code machine?

Yes i did hear that. I have no idea if its true or not but really there is no way to know for sure.

 

[Dry Rot]

Yes i did hear that. I have no idea if its true or not but really there is no way to know for sure.

If it is, then they highly suspected it was a German raider and should have been prepared for it to open fire.

I suppose we'll never know.

 

[RUNVS]

If it is, then they highly suspected it was a German raider and should have been prepared for it to open fire.

I suppose we'll never know.

The problem is that only German sailors survived so we only have their word on what happened. It was very rare in WW2 that everyone on 1 battleship would die and almost every sea battle in WW2 has the perspectives of both sides of the fight. The only things we know about how the Sydney met its fate was what the Germans told us and even though we are no longer enemies they may not tell us the whole truth about what really happened.

 

[Dry Rot]

The ABC doco tonight would suggest that the skipper of the Sydney was an arse clown approaching a suspicious ship like that.

Hats off to the poor bastards still trying to get her home when the bow broke off.

 

[JW Frogen]

The ABC doco tonight would suggest that the skipper of the Sydney was an arse clown approaching a suspicious ship like that.

Hats off to the poor bastards still trying to get her home when the bow broke off.

Well said.

I spent over a decade in the Navy and Captain Crunch had to have been an idiot ____ head.

His familiy is fortunate not to have had to pay for grave.

Still to his crew, fair winds and following seas you unfortunate bastards.