Freemantle, AHOY!

[Talyn]

Freemantle, Australia was a submarine hub in the West Pac during WWI 2, with Allied boats of all stripes including British and Dutch vessels, mixing with locals and Americans. In all, some 170 Allied subs at one time or another passed through Fremantle between 1941 and 1945.

Freemantle, ahoy!

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the idea to keep the Japanese Combined Fleet fenced in its home waters was through investing a lot in submarines. Admiral Hart’s Asiatic Squadron, based in …

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Even more US-Australia submarine collaboration on the horizon

The new year will bring new work between the two navies.

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[powerboatr]

cool
i used to have a submarine game that had the sub based out of freemantle
it was a great game that would eat up a day in a blink

freemantle was a huge pit stop

 

[USMC6094]

I've been to Freemantle, hell of a good place to start liberty on the way to Perth

 

[Talyn]

Freemantle Days with the British Pacific Fleet​

Freemantle days with the BPF

As part of AUKUS, the Royal Navy is set to forward-deploy one of its precious seven nuclear attack submarines (SSN) to Freemantle from around 2027. Of course, this has all happened before. Here we …

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British T-class submarine - Wikipedia

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Meet the T-Class Submarine: The Axis’s Mediterranean Nightmare in World War 2

Though it got off to a rocky start, the T-class submarine went on to serve well into the Cold War.

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1935 - 1970: T Class

Boat Database

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HMS Thorough (P324), a T-class submarine

HMS Thorough (P324), a T-class submarine. The class were equipped with an impressive battery of 8 21-inch bow tubes (2 external) as well as two amidship tubes, with 17 torpedoes carried. However, T…

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Future Fremantle sub basing

Thinking through Britain’s forward-based submarine commitment to AUKUS | The Strategist

The pathway to Australia acquiring nuclear-powered submarines, under Pillar 1 of the AUKUS partnership, assigns a prominent role to the UK, as the designer and co-builder of the future SSN AUKUS for the British and ...

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