Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Yakagadzirirwa seHMS "Phaeton", ngarava yakawanikwa neRAN, yakatangwa seHMAS "Sydney" uye yakatumirwa muna 1935. Akabatanidzwawo muhondo yeMediterranean. "Sydney" yakanyudza ngarava yokuItaly "Bartolomeo Colleoni" muHondo yeCape Spada muna 1940. Gare gare gore iroro, "Sydney" akabatanidzwa muHondo yeCape Matapan
uye Hondo yeCalabria, ichinyudza magwa maviri eItaly, Hondo yeCalabria uye Hondo yeCalabria. Muna 1941, kure neWestern Australia, "Sydney" yakasangana neGermany cruiser yekubatsira "Kormoran"; zvikepe zviviri zvakaparadzwa mumwe nemumwe uye "Sydney" yakarasika nezvombo zvose; matongo ezvikepe zvose zviri zviviri akawanikwa muna 2008.