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|fg=gold|bg=black}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.A.S. ''Sydney''''' was one of three [[Perth Class Cruiser (1934)|''Perth'' Class light cruisers]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].
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|fg=gold|bg=black}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.A.S. ''Sydney''''' was one of three [[Perth Class Cruiser (1934)|''Perth'' Class light cruisers]] which served in the [[Royal Australian Navy]].
  
 
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Commissioned on 24 September, 1935.{{NLJul37|p. 298}}
  
 
==Captains==
 
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}} (A '''I''', ''Fr., Sp.'')|name=John Uniacke Penrose Fitzgerald|nick=John U. P. Fitzgerald|appt=24 September, 1935{{NLJul37|p. 298}}|end=9 October, 1937{{INF}}|precBy=New Command}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John William Ashley Waller|nick=John W. A. Waller|appt=9 October, 1937{{UBAllyWarship|1223}}|end=16 November, 1939{{UBAllyWarship|1223}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptAU}}|name=John Augustine Collins|nick=John A. Collins|appt=16 November, 1939{{UBAllyWarship|1223}}|end=14 May, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|1223}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptAU}}|name=Joseph Burnett|nick=Joseph Burnett|appt=14 May, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|1223}}|end=19 November, 1941{{UBAllyWarship|1223}}|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=died when ship sunk under his command}}
 
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Latest revision as of 10:50, 22 February 2021

H.M.A.S. Sydney (1934)
Builder: Swan Hunter[1]
Laid down: 8 Jul, 1933[2]
Launched: 22 Sep, 1934[3]
Completed: 24 Sep, 1935[4]
Sunk: 19 Nov, 1941
H.M.A.S. Sydney was one of three Perth Class light cruisers which served in the Royal Australian Navy.

Service

Commissioned on 24 September, 1935.[5]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 30.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 30.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 30.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 30.
  5. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 298.
  6. The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 298.
  7. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  8. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  9. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  10. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  11. Uboat.net page on the ship.
  12. Uboat.net page on the ship.


Perth Class Light Cruiser
  Hobart Perth Sydney  
  Minor Cruisers (AU)