Shipwreck Databases Western Australian Museum

Kormoran HSK (1941/11/19)

150 miles of Carvarvon

Formerly Steiermark, a German raider Hamburg – America Line vessel

Ship Built

Owner German Navy

Master Detmers

Builder Kiel Shipyard

Country Built Germany

Port Built Kiel

Ship Lost

Grouped Region Mid-West

Sinking Lost after fight with Sydney

Crew 393

Deaths 78

When Lost 1941/11/19

Where Lost 150 miles of Carvarvon

Latitude -26.09705555

Longitude 111.224305555

Ship Details

Engine N

Length 157.00

Beam 20.00

TONA 8736.00

Museum Reference

Unique Number 1370

Sunk Code Scuttled

File Number 125/84

Chart Number 1055, 330, 329

Protected Protected Federal

Found Y

Inspected N

Confidential NO

Sources

HMAS Sydney 2 Search Foundation found site with side scan sonar 12 March 2008
Members of the Board of the Finding Sydney Foundation (FSF) at the time the
wrecks were found were Ted Graham (Chair), Glenys McDonald, Don Pridmore,
Keith Rowe and Bob Trotter. Ron Birmingham, Bob King and Kim Kirsner
retired prior to the ships being found. Their extensive lobbying, fund-raising
and research activities and their contracting of David Mearns led to the finding
of HSK Kormoran and its adversary HMAS i

McCarthy, M. (ed.) 2010 HMAS Sydney (II). Western Australian Museum Press, Welshpool.