For the following three years, until 1945, the Japanese used the naval base to service and repair their navy ships.
On 6 September 1945, the Japanese surrendered to the British in Sembawang fleet shore accommodation, now called HMS Terror.
In the 1940s, the British started building a 30m long jetty, and later abandoned it during the Japanese occupation.
The private jetty stands in complete shape only from the efforts of these once warring colonial forces.
Admiral Layton, the most senior Naval Officer in Singapore lived in this house for the periods of two years from 1940 to 1942.
After the war, it served as residence of Senior Fleet Officers like the Chief of Staff, who return the salute at the Sembawang Jetty right in front of the house.
The museum contains historical exhibits of the Naval Base, photographs, badges, medals, documents and nautical objects.
On the way is a mosque named Melayu Perempatan Masjid built in the 1970s, surrounded by remnants of air raid shelters and lush secondary vegetation.
The Old Admiralty House, one of 52 national monuments of Singapore, is present 3.5 km from the park in Old Nelson Road.
The 'arts and crafts' style building designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens is now a spa resort known as the Admiral Hill Country Club.
The Sembawang Memorial at the Sembawang wharfs was opened in 2005 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II and in memory of the brave men of the two HMS war cruisers which sunk during the Japanese attack in 1941.