An Australian Sub Was in Trouble While Spying on Chinese

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Paul Lampathakis, Spy Sub Had China Target. Sunday Times, June 17, 2012.
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/ ... rg14c-1226397524656

Note:
(a) Paul Lampathakis is a Perth-based journalist with The Times (London).
(b) Regarding "A WA submarine."

WA stands for Western Australia.
(c) HMAS: His/Her Majesty's Australian Ship
(d) HMAS Farncomb (SSG 74)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Farncomb_(SSG_74)
(the second of six Collins class submarines operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN); Named for Rear Admiral Harold Farncomb; Commissioned 1998; Status  Active)

(e) Perth, Western Australia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth,_Western_Australia
(capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia; "'named the town Perth according to the wishes of Sir George Murray.' Murray was born in Perth, Scotland, and was in 1829 Secretary of State for the Colonies and Member for Perthshire in the British House of Commons")

* Perth, Scotland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth,_Scotland
(The name Perth comes from a Pictish word for wood or copse)

(f) HMAS Stirling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Stirling
(The name HMAS Stirling honours Admiral Sir James Stirling, [UK] Royal Navy (1791–1865))
(g) For Notre Dame University, see University of Notre Dame Australia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Notre_Dame_Australia
(UNDA; a private Roman Catholic university established in 1989 in the Western Australian port city of Fremantle)

* Fremantle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremantle
(located at the mouth of the Swan River; Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth; named after Captain Charles Howe Fremantle, the English naval officer who had pronounced possession of Western Australia)