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The B-98
was one of the large German destroyers of the High Seas Fleet
designed to use the high power machinery ordered by the Imperial
Russian Navy for sisterships of the exceptionally large and
fast, Novik. When World War One began, the machinery destined
for Russia was seized by the German Government. |
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| The HMAS
Sydney was one of several light
cruisers built for the Royal Australian Navy by the British
shipbuilding industry in the 1930s. The Sydney was known for her
aggressive actions in the Battle for the Mediterranean. However,
while checking on a suspicious merchant ship in home waters, the
German Raider Kormoran, she was taken by surprise and fatally
damaged. She apparently steamed from the engagement and
blew up in the night with no survivors. |
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The
largest of the German Merchant Raiders in use by Germany in
World War Two was the Kormoran.
This raider was most famous for her engagement with the light
cruiser HMAS Sydney, in which Kormoran managed to get close
enough to the far more heavily armed light cruiser, to score
fatal damage in the first attack. It was also the end of the
Kormoran, because Sydney was able to inflict fatal damage on her
as well. |
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| With
this set, NNT has put together both the HMAS
Sydney and the German Raider Kormoran
as a Limited Edition. |
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