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Friday 11 October 2019

Australian light cruiser Sydney 1912-1929


Source Fleets of the world 1915. Compiled from official sources and classified according to types

Chatham-design. Launched in 1912, completed in 1912, displacement 5.400 tons, horsepower 25.000 hp, coal-oil fired turbine direct drive machinery and an armament of 8-6” guns, 1-3” anti-aircraft gun, 2-12pd field guns, 8-3pd guns and machineguns and 2 submerged torpedo tubes. Decomissioned in 1928 and broken up in 1929

Source
Archive Dutch Naval Staff 1886-1942 (National Archive at the Hague, Netherlands)  inventory number 155. Fleets (the British Empire and foreign countries) on 1 February 1923.