Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence
and Trade
Completed Inquiry: The loss of HMAS Sydney
Report
The Committee presented its Report on the loss of HMAS Sydney
to the Senate on 22 March 1999 and to the House of Representatives on 29 March 1999. Copies of the individual chapters are
available in both PDF and HTML format. The report is also available from
the Committee Secretariat.
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Summary of Conclusions and Recommendations
Chapter 1: Introduction (PDF Format 13KB)
Chapter 1:
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Chapter 2: The Debate on HMAS Sydney (PDF
Format 32KB)
Chapter 2:
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G Hermon Gill
Michael Montgomery
Barbara Winter
Tom Frame
The Sydney Forums
Chapter 3: Documentary Evidence (PDF Format 21KB)
Chapter 3:
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Australian Material
Overseas Sources
Chapter 4: The Engagement (PDF Format 75KB)
Chapter 4:
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The Debate Surrounding the loss of Sydney
Gill's Account
Reconsidering the Engagement
Chapter 5: Signals, Submarines and Speedboats (PDF
Format 54KB)
Chapter 5:
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Signals sent from Kormoran
Signals sent from Sydney
Theories of Third Party Involvement
The Leichtes Schnellboot (Light Speed Boat)
Chapter 6: The Aftermath (PDF Format 82KB)
Chapter 6:
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Discovery of Kormoran Survivors
The Search for Sydney Begins
Table 6.1 (PDF format)
Release of Information about the Loss
The Interrogations
No Survivors
Was an Inquiry Held?
Chapter 7: The Unknown Sailor (PDF Format 85KB)
Chapter 7:
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Origins of the Carley Float
The Body
The Cemetery
Should the Body be Exhumed?
Legal Authority for Exhumations
Reinterment
Chapter 8: Searching for Sydney and Kormoran
(PDF Format 74KB)
Chapter 8:
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Should a Search be Mounted?
Technical Challenges
Funding a Search
Management Issues
Chapter 9: Commemoration (PDF Format 21KB)
Chapter 9:
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Commemoration to Date
Future Research
Consolidated chapters of report (PDF Format 510KB)
List of submissions