On this page, we show some photographs of RN Naval W/T Stations. As always, some are of interest whilst others can be considered boring [darn right so]. However, they are getting on for 75 years of age, and that is quite ancient in terms of the history of Wireless Telegraphy.
Some of them are shown in PDF form and others are wrapped up inside formatted photograph albums. In the PDF files, look for the yellow balloons. You can either highlight them to read by pointing your mouse at them, or you can click on them and close them in the normal fashion before moving to the next page of the file.
Who knows ? They may even bring back memories to some of our readers.
| Hong Kong - Stonecutters Island in WW2 [and before] before the Japanese captured the Colony | HONG KONG STONECUTTERS ISLAND.pdf |
Singapore - Kranji and Seletar in the early 1930's plus a more
modern photograph supplied by Kevin Ocarroll
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SINGAPORE RADIO STATIONS OF THE 1930's. |
| Gibraltar - covering the periods of approximately 1912 and the early to mid 1930's ***** | GIBRALTAR SHORE COMMS 1912-1936 |
| Simons Town South Africa - Klaver Camp W/T Station rebuild in 1940 | SIMONS TOWN RADIO STATION |
| Horsea Island W/T Station in Portsmouth's Harbour ***** | HORSEA WT |
| Aden - not quite as clear cut as other Stations. A case of "power to the people", but which people, Arabs or Navy men. Plenty of transmitters, but not enough volts and amps ! | ADEN WT |
| Malta - Zebbug, Rinella and others from the earliest times viz 1912 to closure. | MALTA ALL COMMUNICATORS TOGETHER |
| Flowerdown W/T - currently just the one photograph supplied by Kevin Ocarroll |
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| SHORE STATIONS - Defence Communications Network [DCN] |
RN DCN FIXED SERVICES
1965.pdf RN DCN COMMUNICATION GROUPS 1965.pdf DCN ENGINEERING.pdf |
| ***** This file what the stations looked like.pdf tells of the Gibraltar and Horsea sites in 1908. However, the story it tells starts with the main British Naval Radio Station of the day at Cleethorpes in Lincolnshire and moves into the Horsea story. Thus, without the Cleethorpes lead-in one wouldn't understand the Horsea bit. | - |
| A sunny spot in the North Atlantic ? | BERMUDA WT STATION |