HMAS Sydney Battle Honourboard

Battle Honours

HMAS Sydney I
Namesake: Builder: Laid down: Launched: Commissioned: Decommissioned: Motto: Honours & Awards: Fate:	City of Sydney London and Glasgow Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding Company 11 February 1911 29 August 1912 26 June 1913 8 May 1928 "Thorough and Ready" Battle honours: Rabaul 1914 Emden 1914 North Sea 1916–18 She arrived at the Cockatoo Island Dockyard in 1929, where she was broken up. The ship's foremast was retained, and in 1934, it was erected at Bradleys Head by the floating crane Titan. This initially served as a monument to the engagement against Emden, but was rededicated in 1964 as a monument for all Australian ships lost and all sailors killed in the line of duty. Part of the bow, including the stem head, jackstaff, and fairleads, was set into the seawall at Milsons Point, under the Sydney Harbour Bridge. One of the cruiser's derricks is on display in the Victory Memorial Gardens in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, and a compass stand is located at Port Macquarie, New South Wales. The main top-mast was erected at Environa, New South Wales, but rotted at the base and collapsed. It was later moved to Jervis Bay. During the 1930s, two of the 6-inch guns were transported to Western Australia, and in 1938 were installed at Buckley Point on Rottnest Island. These were withdrawn from service and placed in storage in 1944, then were sold to a scrap merchant in 1963. However, the dealer never collected them, and the guns remained on site until 1980, when army reservists retrieved and refurbished them, with one on display outside the Army Museum of Western Australia. Another of the ship's guns was used on Thursday Island from 1940 to 1987.
HMAS Sydney II
Builder: Laid down: Launched: Christened Commissioned: Identification: Motto: Honours & Awards: Fate: Wreck:	Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend-on-Tyne, England 8 July 1933 22 September 1934 HMS Phaeton 24 September 1935 Pennant Number - I48/D48 "I Take But I Surrender" Battle honours: Calabria 1940 Spada 1940 Mediterranean 1940 Kormoran 1941 Inherited honours: Rabaul 1914 Emden 1914 North Sea 1916–18 Sunk in battle with HSK Kormoran, all 645 crew lost on the 19 November 1941. Discovered in 2008
HMAS Sydney III
Builder: Laid down: Launched: Sold to Australia Commissioned: Decommissioned: Recommissioned: Decommissioned: Reclassified: Motto: Nickname: Honours & Awards: Fate:	HM Dockyard Devonport, England 19 April 1943 30 September 1944 (as HMS Terrible) 1947 16 December 1948 30 May 1958 7 March 1962 12 November 1973 Training ship (22 April 1955) Fast troop transport (7 March 1962) "Thorough and Ready" Vung Tau Ferry (as Fast Troop Transport) Battle honours: Korea 1951–52 Malaysia 1964 Vietnam 1965–72 Inherited honours Rabaul 1914 Emden 1914 North Sea 1916–18 Calabria 1940 Spada 1940 Mediterranean 1940 Kormoran 1941 She was sold on 30 October 1975 for breaking up as scrap metal to the Dongkuk Steel Mill in Seoul, South Korea for A$673,516. She was towed from her namesake city by a Japanese tugboat on 23 December 1975.
HMAS Sydney IV
Builder: Laid down: Launched: Commissioned: Decommissioned: Motto: Honours & Awards: Fate	Todd Pacific Shipyards, Seattle, Washington 16 January 1980 26 September 1980 29 January 1983 07 November 2015 "Thorough and Ready" Battle honours: Kuwait 1991 East Timor 1999 Persian Gulf 2001-03 Iraq 2003 Inherited honours Rabaul 1914 Emden 1914 North Sea 1916–18 Calabria 1940 Spada 1940 Mediterranean 1940 Kormoran 1941 Korea 1951–52 Malaysia 1964 Vietnam 1965–72 Other awards: Meritorious Unit Citation In May 2017, the Sydney was towed to Henderson, Western Australia to be scrapped. A former Todd Shipyards employee informed the company doing the scrapping, Birdon, that a miniature of MacNoughton Canadian Whisky "wrapped in insulation tape, was apparently hidden inside the forward starboard leg of the main mast of HMAS Sydney by the team that built her at the Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle in 1982. The date, 10 April 1982 was also scribbled on the label." The bottle was retrieved from its hiding place of 35 years.