Secret Fleets : Freemantle World War II Submarine Base

Contrary to what many Australians believe, during 1942 Japanese submarines were active in Australian waters and Japanese spy planes made surveillance flights over our major cities.

With enemy submarines patrolling off the Western Australian coast, Fremantle became an important international submarine base, the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.

During the war Fremantle played host to over 170 Allied submarines, with submarines of the United States, British and Dutch navies making a total of 416 war patrols out of the port between March 1942 and August 1945.

The secrecy surrounding the operation of the Fremantle submarine base meant that its existence was little known at the time and, until now, has been largely forgotten by history.

Author : Lynne Cairns

Paperback :  238 pages

SKU: P7698

About the Author

Hello, I’ve always loved historical novels, so after reading thousands of them over the years, studying history and writing maritime history books about submarines and shipwrecks, I decided to try my hand at writing some historical fiction. The historical novel ‘Where Wild Black Swans are Flying’ and the children’s novel ‘Cast Away’ are set in the early days of white settlement in Western Australia, which is also the geographic setting for my upcoming story of obsession and murder during the 1890s gold rush. It will be followed (I hope), by a Regency romance with a difference. I also write poetry and short stories, and am working on illustrating my children’s picture books. In my spare time, (what spare time?) I paint and have been known to play the bagpipes.

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