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The Search for Australia's Most Famous WW2 Shipwrecks: HMAS SYDNEY AHS CENTAUR

机译：寻找澳大利亚最著名的第二次世界大战沉船：HMAS悉尼和AHS CENTAUR

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In the annals of Australian military history during World War II few events have generated more gut-wrenching grief and intense controversy than the sinking of the ships HMAS Sydney and AHS Centaur. Lost on opposite coastlines and under completely different circumstances, the ships bear the tragic weight of representing the greatest losses of military and civilian lives caused by enemy hands on the high seas in all of Australian history. The light cruiser HMAS Sydney was the much celebrated and loved glory ship of the RAN. Having returned to a heroes welcome following an amazingly successful campaign in the Mediterranean, the ship and her company were later pitched into a fierce battle off Western Australia with a disguised German Raider that ended in the death of all 645 of her men. The loss of Sydney, and her men, to the slower and less powerful Raider shocked an unbelieving nation to its core. Eighteen months later, whilst in transit about 53 nautical miles east of Brisbane, the Hospital Ship Centaur suffered a similar fate when it was illegally attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine. The sinking of Centaur and cold-blooded killing of 268 doctors, nurses, field ambulance personnel and ship's crew - all innocent non-combatants - was one of the most savage and heinous war crimes ever committed against Australia during World War II. The unfathomable losses of Sydney and Centaur left open wounds in the hearts and minds of countless relatives and friends, which would never totally heal until their wrecks were found and those who died within them were honoured. Backed with funding from the Australian Commonwealth and State Governments two separate deep-water searches for the wrecks were mounted: starting with the Sydney in 2008 and ending with the Centaur in 2009/2010. Despite considerable doubt about the sinking locations and the challenging environmental conditions faced during the searches, the wrecks were successfully located in water depths greater than 2,000 metres. The Author, who led both projects, will present the intensive research he conducted to pinpoint the sinking locations, and stunning images of the wrecks that proved beyond doubt what caused them to sink with such high loss of life.
机译：在第二次世界大战期间澳大利亚军事史的史册中，很少有事件比HMAS Sydney和AHS Centaur船沉没引起更多的令人不安的悲痛和激烈的争议。在完全相反的情况下，在相对的海岸线上丧生，这艘船承受着悲惨的重量，代表着在澳大利亚整个历史上，由于敌人的双手在公海上造成的最大的军事和平民生命损失。悉尼轻型巡洋舰HMAS是RAN广受赞誉和喜爱的荣耀船。在地中海战役中取得巨大成功之后，她回到了英雄的怀抱中，随后，这艘船和她的公司被伪装成德国突袭者在西澳大利亚州展开了激烈的战斗，最终以杀死全部645名士兵的方式结束了这次袭击。悉尼和她的手下的人被速度更慢，威力更弱的突袭者所击败，使一个不信的国家震惊了自己的核心。 18个月后，半人马医院的运送船在布里斯班以东约53海里的途中遭到了日本潜艇的非法袭击和沉没，其命运也与此相似。半人马的沉没和268名医生，护士，现场救护人员和船员的冷血杀害-所有这些都是无辜的非战斗人员-是第二次世界大战期间针对澳大利亚犯下的最残酷和令人发指的战争罪行之一。悉尼和半人马座的惨重损失在无数亲戚和朋友的心灵中留下了明显的伤口，直到发现他们的沉船残骸和悼念在其中丧生的人，这些伤痕才永远无法治愈。在澳大利亚联邦和州政府的资助下，对沉船进行了两次单独的深水搜索：从2008年的悉尼开始，到2009/2010年的半人马座结束。尽管对下沉的地点和搜索过程中面临的艰巨环境条件存有疑问，但沉船仍成功地位于水深超过2,000米的地方。领导这两个项目的作者将介绍他为查明沉没位置而进行的深入研究，以及令人难以置信的沉船残骸图像，这些沉船图像无疑证明了造成沉船如此沉重生命的原因。

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