Boom Defence Jetty
- See also: Boom defence buildings
The Boom Defence Jetty is a jetty that formed part of the WW2 Submarine base defences. It is on the right as you go out onto South Mole, in Dago Bay. See the 2005 Slipways Conservation Plan for more information.
From Wikipedia:
To protect the Fremantle Harbour, anti-submarine and anti-torpedo boom nets were installed across the harbour entrance in 1941, spanning between North and South Moles. This barrier was a buoyed wire mesh net that could be opened in its centre by a winch at North Mole.
References and Links
- Cockburn Sound anti-submarine boom net.
- Wikipedia entry for Fremantle Fortress.
- Slipways Conservation Plan, 2005.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 1 October, 2021 and hosted at freotopia.org/jetties/boomdefence.html (it was last updated on 11 January, 2024), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.