The wreck of missing Royal Australian Navy cruiser HMAS Sydney (II) has been found. HMAS Sydney (II) was tragically lost in November 1941 off Western Australia with its entire crew, following a fierce engagement with the German raider HSK Kormoran. The...

ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE FINDING OF THE HMAS SYDNEY AND GERMAN VESSEL, KORMORAN. INTERVIEWEES: KEVIN RUDD, PRIME MINISTER; TED GRAHAM, FINDING SYDNEY FOUNDATION; VICE ADMIRAL RUSS SHALDERS, CHIEF OF NAVY Location: Canberra Date: 17th March 2008 Time: 9.20AM...

Joint Statement David Mearns - Search Director, The Finding Sydney Foundation Lieutenant John Perryman, RANR – Official Observer At 11:03 (AWT) on Sunday 16 March 2008, a small dark shape was detected coming into view on the starboard side of our SM30...

There are high hopes that an enduring maritime mystery will soon be laid to rest, following the discovery of the HSK Kormoran off the West Australian coast. Today the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, along with the Minister for Defence Science and Personnel...

David Mearns - Search Director, The Finding Sydney Foundation Wreck of HSK Kormoran Discovered The wreckage of the German Raider HSK Kormoran was found by the search team on board the SV Geosounder at 17:30 (AWT) on March 12th, 2008 in the approximate...

David Mearns - Search Director, The Finding Sydney Foundation We ran our first "higher-resolution" line late last evening past some suspicious looking sonar targets at the southern extremity of our search box. By higher-resolution, I mean that...

David Mearns - Search Director, The Finding Sydney Foundation After our early problems I am very pleased with how the search has progressed over the past couple of days. The Williamson & Associates SM30 side-scan sonar search system was selected for...

David Mearns - Search Director, The Finding Sydney Foundation A few days ago I wrote about the rhythm of a search expedition - how a good rhythm consists of a search line followed by a turn to the next line repeated many times over with monotonous regularity...

David Mearns - Search Director, The Finding Sydney Foundation We've had such a lousy string of luck since the start of this search it was about time that things started to go our way. An enormous amount of effort by the Williamson & Associates...

When was the HMAS Sydney II Found by the Finding Sydney Foundation? Sunday 16th of March 2008 When was the HSK Kormoran Found by the Finding Sydney Foundation? Wednesday 12th of March 2008 Where is the wreck of the HMAS Sydney II located? 26° 14’ 37”...

David Mearns - Search Director, The Finding Sydney Foundation We have now been at sea for 8 days and are still being plagued by technical problems and unseasonably rough weather. A search line we started early this morning had to be aborted because I...

David Mearns - Search Director, The Finding Sydney Foundation Shipwreck search projects generally fall into a rythym of running the side-scan sonar down a trackline followed by a turn to the next search trackline, repeated many times over. So a good rythym...

David Mearns - Search Director, The Finding Sydney Foundation With Ophelia out of the way we were able to resume the search today and start to make a dent in the search box. However you compare it, our search box is extremely large. In marine terms it...

David Mearns - Search Director, The Finding Sydney Foundation There is only one photo to go with our blogs today because there is only one subject that has dominated our day. The weather. Despite the fact that she was downgraded early in the day, Ophelia...

David Mearns - Seach Director, The Finding Sydney Foundation When I said yesterday that more twists and turns were to come I wasn't expecting them to come so fast. The first twist was a particularly cruel one. Towards the end of our first sonar trackline...