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Plaque at Fremantle, Western Australia to commemorate the United States, British, and Dutch Submarines that served the Allied cause in WW2 that operated out of this Australian State.
Plaque at Fremantle, Western Australia to commemorate the United States, British, and Dutch Submarines that served the Allied cause in WW2 that operated out of this Australian State.
The second last name of the Dutch Subs is wrongly spelt. It should be Tijgerhaai, and not Tigjerhaai. 
This plaque remembers this wartime Dutch Boat. K1X, had escaped from Java to Fremantle in 1942 when the Japanese were advancing. It was subsequently based in Sydney, and on the night of the 31st of May 1942 when the Japanese Midget Subs attacked Sydney Harbour, the torpedo that sank HMAS Kuttabul, extensively damaged K1X. This Dutch Boat was then commissioned into the RAN, and was paid off in 1944, the hull converted to carry diesel oil. On the 20th. of June 1945, when being towed by RNN Abraham Crijnssen on a voyage to Brisbane, it slipped the tow, and ran ashore at Fiona Beach, this was renamed Submarine Beach on the 14th. of January in 1977, to remember this lost Submarine. Today (23 March 2001) the wreck of this former Dutch Submarine K1X, lies buried under several metres of sand. (Read more)
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