Wreck images show damaged lost Australian warship

The gun turret from the Australian warship HMAS Sydney II is seen in
this undated handout photo released on April 4, 2008.

CANBERRA (Reuters) -- Wreck hunters released the first images of a sunken Australian warship on Friday, showing damage caused by shelling from a German ship during their World War II battle in the Indian Ocean.

Searchers last month found the wreck of the HMAS Sydney, which sank with the loss of all 645 crew in November 1941 after a 30-minute battle with the German merchant raider HSK Kormoran, but details of why the ship sank so quickly remain a mystery. full story