His Majesty’s Australian Ship (HMAS) ARMIDALE was an Australian Corvette sunk by the Japanese in a three-minute hellfire off the coast of East Timor on December 1, 1942. Over 50 lives were lost and over 100 men went into the water. Armidale is the extraordinary true story of Lieutenant Commander David Richards and his brave young crew (average age 21) - including Edward ‘Teddy’ Sheean VC - who battled disaster, and extreme conditions on the open sea - bound together by comradeship, duty and their instinct for survival. Sheean received his Victoria Cross some 79 years after the event.