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See also: boom defence buildings.
Boom Defence Jetty
The Boom Defence Jetty is on your right as you go out onto the South Mole, in Dago Bay. See the 2005 Slipways Conservation Plan for more information.
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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). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.