Shipping & Sailing
All Aboard STS Young Endeavour
11 August 2025
Our Shipping and Sailing Correspondent, Jean Hudson, toured the STS Young Endeavour on Saturday just gone. In case the inclement…
Welcome to Freo STS Young Endeavour
5 August 2025
Well, here she is. STS Young Endeavour. She arrived in Fremantle just after 11 am this morning from Exmouth, via…
STS Young Endeavour Making Farewell Visit To Freo
3 August 2025
STS Young Endeavour, Australia’s national STS or sail training ship, is nearing the end of an era and will soon…
Round The World Clipper Fleet Returns to Freo in December
29 July 2025
The 14th Clipper Round the world Yacht Race is returning to Fremantle from 5-10 December 2025, as part of its…
Fremantle to Host Australian Cruise Association Conference
23 July 2025
The 2025 Australian Cruise Association (ACA) Conference is set to return to Fremantle after two decades, taking place from 3-5…
Sail GP Set To Thrill Freo 17 & 18 January 2026
14 July 2025
Those Magnificent Men and Women in their Flying Machines – actually fast-foiling catamarans - are coming to Fremantle. The global…
Navy Commissions Caffeine-Fuelled Arafura
7 July 2025
The Royal Australian Navy has officially commissioned HMAS Arafura, one of the new Arafura-class offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) into operational…
HMAS Arafura hits the water sailing!
28 June 2025
Today marks a major milestone of the Australian Government’s implementation of the Surface Fleet Review with the commissioning of HMAS…
HMAS Arafura Arrives In Freo For Commissioning
25 June 2025
Today, right on 1 pm, the HMAS Arafura came though the Heads, North and South Moles, into Fremantle Harbour. Our…








