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Originally Posted by GerritJ9
In the Far East, their role was minimal initially- almost all RN submarines were either in Home waters or in the Med. It was not until much later that they started to arrive in significant numbers, operating from Ceylon and mainly active in the Malacca Straits and off Singapore and Sumatra.
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They also operated out of Fremantle, Western Australia. My uncle served on HMS Tiptoe during WWII. Here you can find a commemorative plaque that lists all Allied subs that operated out of Fremantle http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/collecti...our/plaque.asp
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