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HMAS Canberra, a 9850-ton heavy cruiser of the British Kent class, was built at Glasgow, Scotland. She was commissioned in July 1928 and soon steamed to Australia. Following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, Canberra mainly operated in Australian and Indian Ocean waters, but also served in the South Atlantic in 1940. In March 1941, she helped to sink the German support ship Ketty Brovig in the Indian Ocean.

In early August 1942, the cruiser participated in Operation "Watchtower", the invasion of Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the southern Solomon Islands. During the early hours of 9 August, while on patrol off Guadalcanal, she was badly damaged in combat with a force of Japanese cruisers. HMAS Canberra was scuttled several hours later, becoming one of the first ships sunk in what would soon be called "Iron Bottom Sound".

Canberra's wreck was discovered and examined in July-August 1992, almost exactly fifty years after her loss. She lies upright on the sea floor, some 2500 feet deep, with visible signs of shell hits and fire damage amidships. Her turrets are still trained out to the port side, as they were during her brief and fatal engagement with the Japanese.

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ORIGINAL: Smiffus64
What are your thoughts about using background material found on the internet word for word.
As an example, I found this text on the cruiser HMAS Canberra

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HMAS Canberra, a 9850-ton heavy cruiser of the British Kent class, was built at Glasgow, Scotland. She was commissioned in July 1928 and soon steamed to Australia. Following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, Canberra mainly operated in Australian and Indian Ocean waters, but also served in the South Atlantic in 1940. In March 1941, she helped to sink the German support ship Ketty Brovig in the Indian Ocean.

In early August 1942, the cruiser participated in Operation "Watchtower", the invasion of Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the southern Solomon Islands. During the early hours of 9 August, while on patrol off Guadalcanal, she was badly damaged in combat with a force of Japanese cruisers. HMAS Canberra was scuttled several hours later, becoming one of the first ships sunk in what would soon be called "Iron Bottom Sound".

Canberra's wreck was discovered and examined in July-August 1992, almost exactly fifty years after her loss. She lies upright on the sea floor, some 2500 feet deep, with visible signs of shell hits and fire damage amidships. Her turrets are still trained out to the port side, as they were during her brief and fatal engagement with the Japanese.

the link to it can be found here

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HMAS Australia, a 10.000 ton Kent class cruiser, was ordered by the Australian government in 1924. Commissioned in 1928, the Australia patrolled the home waters and pacific islands until it was put into the reserve fleet in 1938.

Recomissioned at the onset of world war II it saw action from the Northern Atlantic as convoy escort to the Southwest pacific in support of amphibious operations around Guadalcanal.

On 21 October 1944, during operations in Leyte Gulf in the Phillipines, HMAS Australia was hit by a suicide plane in what some believe was the first Kamikaze attack of the war, killing 29 sailors and wounding another 63.

HMAS Australia was decomissioned in 1954 and sold as scrap in 1955.

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ORIGINAL: Smiffus64
Would this be acceptable? If it needs to be more detailed...

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HMAS Australia, a 10.000 ton Kent class cruiser, was ordered by the Australian government in 1924. Commissioned in 1928, the Australia patrolled the home waters and pacific islands until it was put into the reserve fleet in 1938.

Recomissioned at the onset of world war II it saw action from the Northern Atlantic as convoy escort to the Southwest pacific in support of amphibious operations around Guadalcanal.

On 21 October 1944, during operations in Leyte Gulf in the Phillipines, HMAS Australia was hit by a suicide plane in what some believe was the first Kamikaze attack of the war, killing 29 sailors and wounding another 63.

HMAS Australia was decomissioned in 1954 and sold as scrap in 1955.

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ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets
I suggest doing a few of these rather quickly without a lot of agonizing over details and reedits. Once you have a half a dozen down, you will have a better understanding of the size and shape of the beast.

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I think these will really be great for adding historical detail to the game.

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ORIGINAL: Froonp
Yes, but please, while you're at this (looking for details about warships) it would be greater again if you could also locate a good telling picture of the warship as it was typically during the war or 3-view drawings of it, or best, both.