AN Australian Collins-class submarine, HMAS Sheean, has further deepened – quite literally – its bond with northern Tasmania, taking descendants of Ordinary Seaman Teddy Sheean VC, on a dive ...

Collins-class attack boats HMAS Dechaineux leads HMAS Waller and HMAS Sheean in formation in Cockburn Sound, near Rockingham Western Australia in 2013. RAN Photo The effort to build Australia’s ...

HMAS Sheean, which entered service in 2001, sailed from Perth’s submarine base on September 21 last year to the West Australian exercise area to complete its operational work-up ...

Significant uncertainty and the occasional triumph have marked Australia’s naval shipbuilding enterprise in Adelaide’s ...

In 1999, a Collins Class Submarine was renamed the HMAS Sheean in recognition of the soldier — the only vessel in the Royal Australian Navy to bear the name of a junior sailor.

HMAS Sheean conducting an Air Sea Safety Assesment off Garden Island in Western Australia with HMAS Adelaide's SeaHawk helicopter. The ageing submarine is expected to be out of the water until at ...

Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS Sheean arrives alongside during a logistics port visit of Hobart, Tasmania on April 1, 2021. Royal Australian Navy Photo.

Ordinary Seaman Sheean died on 1 December 1942 while defending fellow crew members fleeing the HMAS Armidale while under attack from Japanese aircraft in waters off the island of Timor.