One ship and one shore base of the Royal Australian Navy have been named HMAS Leeuwin, after Cape Leeuwin in Western Australia. , a naval base in Fremantle, Western Australia from 1940 to 1986, then operated by the Australian Army as Leeuwin Barracks , lead ship of the Leeuwin-class hydrographic survey vessels, which entered service in 2000 and is active as of 2016 See also , a lighthouse tender commissioned into the RAN during World War II Royal Australian Navy ship names