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Country Class Heavy cruiser of the Royal Australian Navy.


Arrived at Sydney (12/14/1941)

Assigned Taskforce 431 to raid Japanese Landings at Efate (1/18/1942)

Raid Efate (1/22/1942)

7 Japanese Ships sunk including 2 destroyers.

Defended Port Moresby from raiders (3/5/1942)

Took 2 Shell Hits

Assigned to cover Transports for Invasion of Rossel Island (3/17/1942)

Supported Invasion of Lunga (3/29/1942)

Defended Landing at Lunda from Japanese Task force including the IJN Aoba (4/2/1942)

Took 4 Shell Hits

Supported Invasion of Shortlands (5/4/1942)

Attacked by Japanese Aircraft at Shortlands (5/5/1942)

Took 1 Torpedo hit

Attacked by Japanese Carrier Aircraft at Shortlands (5/6/1942)

Took 2 Bomb hits causing fires

Took 3 Bomb hits causing heavy fires and heavy damage (5/7/1942)

(Sunk 5/8/1942)

Admitted Sunk (8/3/1942)

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