Henderson Naval Base | |
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Jervoise Bay, south of Woodman Point, Western Australia in Australia | |
Coordinates | 32°08′36″S 115°45′30″E / 32.143258°S 115.758450°E |
Site information | |
Owner | Minister for Defence |
Operator | Royal Australian Navy |
Site history | |
Built | 1913 | −1920
In use | Never completed |
Henderson Naval Base was a proposed and partially built naval base of the Royal Australian Navy south of Fremantle, Western Australia in what is now the suburbs of Naval Base and Henderson. Planned in 1911, construction of the base commenced in 1913 but was abandoned during World War I and cancelled in 1920.
Temporary naval facilities subsequently existed in the state during World War II but a permanent facility was not established until 1978, when HMAS Stirling was commissioned.