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THE CRUISER SYDNEY.

END OF USEFUL CAREER. DISPOSAL OF EMDEN TROPHIES. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] SYDNEY, May 18. Her long career of usefulness ended, H.M.A.S. Sydney's colours were lowered a few days ago. When the ceremonial was completed, the 350 officers and men were transferred to the liner Beltana for the voyage to England to join the new cruiser Canberra. These 350 will be joined by 150 more from other warships and depots in Australian waters. Of the Sydney's officers, nine out of ten are Australians, and all ratings, with the exception of 12, are Australians. The next warship launched to bear the name Sydney will inherit the valuable trophies from the Sydney-Emden fight, of November 9, 1914. The trophies given to the Sydney are being removed to Garden ( Island, and among the most prized of them is a piece of shell-pierced armour plate from the Emden engagement. The squadron trophies will be transferred to tho new Australia when that vessel arrives here. It will take a month to empty th® Sydney of the stores she contains. Everything portable will be taken out, only the guns, fixtures and rigging being left. In that state she will go into the reserve at the naval depot at Garden Island."

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19957, 28 May 1928, Page 7

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THE CRUISER SYDNEY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19957, 28 May 1928, Page 7

THE CRUISER SYDNEY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19957, 28 May 1928, Page 7