Fremantle submarine base

Fremantle submarine base
Fremantle submarine base
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
	The submarine tender USS Holland with five American submarines at Fremantle in 1942
	Location of the Fremantle submarine base in Western Australia
Site history
In use	1942−1945
Garrison information
Past; commanders	John E. Wilkes (March–May 1942) Charles A. Lockwood (May–December 1942) Allan R. McCann (acting, January 1943) Ralph Waldo Christie (February 1943–December 1944) James Fife (December 1944–1945)

Fremantle submarine base was the utilisation of Fremantle Harbour as a submarine base in World War II.^[1] The submarine base was second only to Pearl Harbor in the Pacific theatre, with US, British and Dutch submarines operating from Fremantle during the war. US submarines operating from Fremantle accounted for approximately one quarter of all US submarine patrols in the Pacific.

^ Creed, David; Naval Historical Society of Australia (2002), Operations of the Fremantle submarine base: 1942–1945, Naval Historical Society of Australia, retrieved 7 February 2016

[1] Creed, David; Naval Historical Society of Australia (2002), Operations of the Fremantle submarine base: 1942–1945, Naval Historical Society of Australia, retrieved 7 February 2016

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Fremantle submarine base
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
The submarine tender USS Holland with five American submarines at Fremantle in 1942
Location of the Fremantle submarine base in Western Australia
Site history
In use	1942 (1942)−1945 (1945)
Garrison information
Past commanders	John E. Wilkes (March–May 1942) Charles A. Lockwood (May–December 1942) Allan R. McCann (acting, January 1943) Ralph Waldo Christie (February 1943–December 1944) James Fife (December 1944–1945)