Kammala jumla mai zuwa: A ranar 5 ga Nuwamba, "Sydney" kuma ya tashi daga Port Said tare da kayan aikin soja da za a yi amfani da su don kafa wani tushe na Allied a Souda Bay, Crete. Bayan ya ba da kayan aiki, wanda ya haɗa da kusan sojoji 1,000, kayan aiki don batirin Bofors, akwatunan abinci, da manyan motoci da yawa, masu jirgi sun koma babban rundunar. Jirgin ruwan Bahar Rum ya ci gaba da sintiri na kwanaki da yawa, kuma a cikin daren 11 zuwa 12 ga Nuwamba, yayin da yawancin jiragen ruwa suka goyi bayan jirgin sama na farko a duniya
sun kai hari kan rundunar sojan Italiya da ke Taranto, "Sydney", "Ajax", "Orion" da masu hallaka kuma sun yi ƙoƙarin wucewa ta mashigin Otranto a matsayin karkatarwa. Duk da aikin "neman matsala", hanyar arewa ta hanyar mashigar ta wuce ba tare da wani abin da ya faru ba. Dawowar ba ta kasance ba tare da matsala ba: a 01:20, masu kallo na "Sydney" sun ga wani jirgi na 'yan kasuwa hudu tare da masu hallaka biyu. Jirgin yakin Allied ya yi kusa da kusa, kuma ya bude wuta a 1:27: "Sydney" yana jagorantar wuta a kan wani jirgin ruwa mai nisa. A lokacin da aka shafe mintuna 23, jirgin ya samu nasarar taimakawa wajen lalata jiragen ruwa guda uku da kuma lalata mai hallaka, ya kauce wa torpedo, kuma ya yi nasara ba tare da nasara ba. A 1: 57, sojojin Allied da ba su lalace ba sun bar bakin teku, kuma sun sadu da babban jirgin ruwa kafin tsakar rana.