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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 86. Chapters: First Fleet, Mersey, Battle between HMAS Sydney and German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran, Adelaide Steamship Company, City of Adelaide, HMS Endeavour, SS Gothenburg, SS Yongala, Loch Line, Shipwrecks of Western Australia, Low Head Lighthouse, Loch Vennachar, Flying Cloud, Lady Elizabeth, Port Jackson and Manly Steamship Company, SS Ellengowan, MS Wanganella, Eber Bunker, Parmelia, Loch Sloy, Second Fleet, Makassan contact with Australia, Greycliffe disaster, Manunda, Sydney Cove, Loch Ard, Success, 1910-1921 Australian region cyclone seasons, HMS Porpoise, Garden Island, New South Wales, Dennis Considen, Estramina, Solomon Wiseman, Thomas Arbuthnot, Betsey, Hobart Ferry Services, Geltwood, Excalibur, The Bluebell Collision, Margaret, Argo, Morrison & Sinclair, HMS Fly, Union, Caroline, MV Kooringa, George Bouchier Worgan, Hawkesbury Packet, Cato, Governor Hunter, Roaring Forties, Daphne, Campbell Macquarie, Grace, Phatisalam, Lady Elliot, Actaeon, Young Lachlan, Edwin, Sydney Packet, Windeward Bound, John Palmer, Morning Star, Unity, Elligood, Tasmanian Steamers, Santa Anna 1812, Dundee, Integrity, Princess Charlotte, L'Enterprise, Hebe, Tellicherry, Devitt and Moore, Martha, Norfolk, Duke of Portland. Excerpt: The battle between HMAS Sydney and German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran was a single ship action between the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney, with Captain Joseph Burnett commanding, and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran, under Fregattenkapitan (Commander) Theodor Detmers. The half-hour long engagement occurred after the two ships encountered each other off the coast of Western Australia on 19 November 1941, and resulted in the ships' mutual destruction. When Sydney failed to return to port, air and sea searches for the cruiser were conducted between 24 and 29 November. Three boats and two rafts carrying Ge...
