"MOST GALLANT SHIP"
ADMIRALTY'S MESSAGE British Offlclal Wireless. Rec. 11.30 a.m. RUGBY, Dec. 3. The First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. A. V. Alexander, has sent Mr. Makin, Australian Minister of the Navy, the following message: "My colleagues of the Board of the Admiralty and I waited anxiously for news that might give us hope that there would be survivors from the Sydney. Now this hope has practically vanished we send you, on behalf of the Royal Navy, and from ourselves our deepest sympathy in the heavy los sof so many fine officers and men. The Sydney was a most gallant ship with a record that will live in naval history, and we can find some consolation in the fact that she ended her career by freeing our ocean lifelines of a serious menace. Please accept also our sympathy in the losses sustained by the Parramatta, whose work, too, has been of great service to our common cause.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 287, 4 December 1941, Page 7
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