Western Australia Maritime Museum

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Last Saturday, both of us went to the Western Australia Maritime Museum. First of all, we seldom have the time or rather initiative to visit places like museum or those so called tourist attractions in Perth.

This time around is different because we have 2 visitors from Hong Kong, Percy's (our neighbour) mum and her brother. Percy decided to bring them to Fremantle and she asked us to tag along.

In Fremantle itself, there are several museums. After circling around the port city on a CAT bus, there was this particular museum that caught our attention.

It was the Western Australia Maritime Museum.


The Maritime Museum located at Victoria Quay, Fremantle has more than two and a half million specimens or artefacts.

The admission fees were quite cheap compare to the other museums around Fremantle.
-$15 for an adult
-$8 for concession such as student and senior citizen
(Joint ticket - includes a museum day pass and Submarine Entry)


These are the few pictures taken in the museum's gallery. It was rather an interesting place to visit. Highly educational and breathtaking.

Next, we have the chance to go onboard a real submarine. This submarine named HMAS Ovens is a former Royal Australian Navy Oberon Class submarine. It was employed during the Cold War II.


The museum offers a special guided tour through the submarine. We were given explanation on how the submarine actually works. It was very complicated and most of the people in the tour don't really get what the tour guide is trying to say. He used quite a lot of scientific terms and marine jargons that confused us.

This four tubes are where the torpedoes being kept

The Tiny Kitchen

Try to imagine that the chef need to cook for 62 navy crews in this small little tiny kitchen.


Electric control room

Main Control Area

There are a few more compartments that we visited in the submarine. Unfortunately we didn't manage to capture any picture because the aisle was too narrow and the places were dimly lit.


Overall it was a very interesting experience :) Afterall not many people can claim that they had been inside a real wartime submarine before.

Our guests from Hong Kong:-
From left : Aunty,me, Percy and her brother :)

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