Find out what life is like aboard a submarine and immerse yourself in Fremantle's secret wartime history.
Guided tours of the submarine reveal intimate details about living and serving aboard the 89-metre-long vessel. Amongst controls, sensors, tactical equipment and torpedoes, 63 people lived and served aboard the vessel in extremely cramped conditions.
Tours
Daily | Every half hour 10am – 3.30pm
- Please arrive 15 minutes before your tour is due to commence.
- The tour takes approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes to complete.
- Tours are hosted by expert volunteers and are subject to session time availability. Please ring WA Maritime Museum on (08) 9431 8334 to check up-to-date session times not advertised online.
- The tour includes climbing 9-metre-high scaffolding stairs, steeply inclined ladders and bending through narrow hatchways. A reasonable level of fitness, freedom from significant injuries, and the ability to climb independently (without walking aids) is required.
- For safety reasons, children must be over the age of six and at least 100 centimetres tall to participate on the submarine tour.
- Please call ahead if you have a larger group or if you are concerned about weather conditions. Tours can be cancelled because of severe weather conditions. Tickets will be refunded in such events.