The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A montage of a lithograph of HMAS Sydney and German raider Emden. The crew of the Sydney which sank the old Emden supplied a search party for the new Emden (inset), which was surrendered by the Germans at end of the First World War.
The light cruiser Emden, which was built during the First World War and was the namesake of the Pacific raider smashed by HMAS Sydney at Cocos Island in 1914. Appropriately, when the German fleet sur
The interior of the cable station on Direction Island, showing the damage done by a party from the German raider Emden when they took it over on 9 November. When a party from HMAS Sydney landed on 11
Two Australian sailors repair the cable cut by a party of Germans from the raider SMS Emden. After the Emden was driven ashore at North Keeling Island by HMAS Sydney on 9 November 1914, the German par
HMAS Sydney steaming to Direction Island after her successful action against the German raider Emden on 9 November. A party from the Emden had landed on the 9th and taken over the Eastern Extension C
Germans commandeer cable station stores to provision the yacht Ayesha, owned by the Clunies-Ross family, after the German raider SMS Emden was driven ashore at North Keeling Island by HMAS Sydney on 9
A broadside view of the wrecked German raider Emden after her encounter with HMAS Sydney near Cocos Island. Seamen, shortly to be rescued by the Sydney, crowd together on the clear end of the vessel.
