A commissioning crew for the aircraft carrier was raised in Australia from the ship's company of the decommissioned cruiser , which departed from Sydney aboard in June 1948. Ex-Royal Navy sailors were used to fill out the carrier's complement. "Terrible" was handed over to the RAN on 16 December 1948, and was commissioned at noon as HMAS "Sydney". One of the reasons behind the choice in name was so AU£426,000 raised by the HMAS "Sydney" Replacement Fund after the loss of the light cruiser HMAS "Sydney" in 1941 could be accessed. "Sydney" was the last vessel to be commissioned into the RAN as 'His' Majesty's Australian Ship: as after the death of King George VI on 6 February 1952 and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, all RAN ships became 'Her' Majesty's.