tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81712303571681172362024-03-18T03:00:38.756+00:00A History of RAF Saxa VordGordon Carlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04360114502865961238noreply@blogger.comBlogger321125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171230357168117236.post-78290186464990403532020-12-14T22:27:00.001+00:002020-12-14T22:27:54.149+00:00The Last Post - by Gordon’s FamilyThank you so much for all of your support over the years.. Gordon (dad) passed away on the 13th of December at home with his family. A rare type of blood disorder got him in the end. He was always passionate about RAF Saxavord, and of everything about radars! This blog was something he spent hundreds of hours on, getting great and rare insights from you all. I’m sure he would want me to thank you for all the information and friendship over the years. If anyone feels they would like to show support to the causes that he was passionate about, the RAF Air Defence Museum Neatishead as well as the Shetland Bird Club, I’m sure he would be very pleased. We will miss him a lot.Gordon Carlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04360114502865961238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171230357168117236.post-23901600723779435452020-04-30T20:00:00.000+01:002020-04-30T20:00:00.594+01:00A History of RAF Skaw (AMES 56) - The Out-Post - Volume 4 No 1<br />
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This is the last issue of "The Out-Post" which In
have a copy of. The original copy belongs to Sammy Sjoberg <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and I am very grateful to him for allowing me
to reproduce it. The quality of production is higher than any of the previous
editions I have seen and it features the names of a number of servicemen who
were at RAF Skaw at the time. The most renowned of these (in Shetland at
least), is the late Tom "Tammy" Anderson, who was to become famous
for his work in preserving Shetland fiddle music.</div>
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The issue also indicates that there was a significant degree
of cooperation (and rivalry) between the personnel of the RAF Chain Home
Station at Skaw and the Admiralty Coastal Defence U Boat radar on Saxa Vord
(Admiralty Experimental Station 4). In addition, the magazine<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>draws attention to the importance of
entertainment (shows and cinema) and the integration with the local community
(dances and sale of work in Baltasound).</div>
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<br />Gordon Carlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04360114502865961238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171230357168117236.post-44635700903321355982020-02-28T19:00:00.000+00:002020-02-28T19:00:00.144+00:00A History of RAF Skaw (AMES 56) – The Out-Post – Volume 2 Issue 1<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The first issue of The <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Outpost was released in Apr '41 and only a
handful of copies were produced. A year later, with the aid of a duplicator, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>circulation had increased considerably.
Marking the completion of the first year the numbering system was changed to
show that the May '42 issue was Issue 1 of "Volume 2".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was in May that the full Chain Home radar
at Skaw<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was commissioned and the tall
Transmitter (360') <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>& Receiver Towers
(240') were operational.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Left
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Gordon Carlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04360114502865961238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171230357168117236.post-84537324729809458372020-01-31T20:00:00.000+00:002020-01-31T20:00:02.082+00:00A History of RAF Skaw (AMES 56) – The Out-Post – Volume 3 No 4<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I think this is the 19th issue
of the magazine. By the time of its release the staff were producing about 200
copies of each release. This effort covers the period May/June 1943 and I am sure
that The Outpost<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>continued to be produced
through 1944 and 1945. If anyone has copies of the magazine, which haven't been
published on this blog, I would appreciate it if they were to get in touch. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Left
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Gordon Carlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04360114502865961238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171230357168117236.post-82544858569158262852019-12-31T20:00:00.000+00:002019-12-31T20:00:00.213+00:00A History of RAF Skaw (AMES 56)– The Out-Post – Issue 12<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A S Arnold, who had just taken over as the Editor of the
Outpost, was unable to return to Unst from leave due to illness. At short
notice AC Chape took over the responsibility for this issue. Though no fault of
his, my copy has some letters missing on the left hand side of some pages
following a number of copies being made from an original; however, a little thought
should fill in most gaps!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Two of the significant items which can be can be highlighted
from this issue are the Royal Canadian Air Force and Entertainment. Many Commonwealth
counties provided invaluable support to the UK during WWII. Canadian personnel made
a great contribution to the war effort . RCAF Sqns operated within Bomber and
Coastal Command in particular, with one Canadian Canso (Catalina) pilot, David
Ernest Hornell, being awarded a posthumous V.C. for sinking a U-Boat some distance
north of RAF Skaw. Many Canadians were also involved in the UK radar world
&, at one time of another, I have information about their employment at 9
CH/CHL sites in Shetland alone. An article, about the Canadian contingent at
RAF Skaw begins on Page 11. Although work kept everyone busy for much of the
time there was still the need to provide entertainment for the troops. Page 21
shows the first advert I have seen for forthcoming films. <em><strong>Left click on images
to enlarge.</strong></em></span><br />
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Gordon Carlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04360114502865961238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171230357168117236.post-64153952062340234322019-11-30T20:00:00.001+00:002019-11-30T20:00:01.082+00:00A History of RAF Skaw (AMES 56) – The Out-Post – Issue 10/11This Issue of the Outpost is unusual as it marks the first changeover of editor since its inception. Cpl Catford, who had been the Editor for all previous issues, was finally posted and was replaced by Cpl Arnold. It was possibly the switch in personnel which resulted in one magazine to cover 2 months. The small sketch on page 20 of a Radar Operator going on duty reminds me of my own tour at Saxa many years later, when the crew would go on watch prepared for most eventualities!<br />
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Gordon Carlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04360114502865961238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171230357168117236.post-21823862572212353762019-10-31T21:00:00.000+00:002019-10-31T21:00:02.617+00:00A History of RAF Skaw (AMES 56) – The Out-Post – Issue 9<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
By the time Issue 9 of the Outpost came out the radar station had been operational for a year, The main Chain Home was still not ready and the watch-keepers were still using the wooden huts and smaller towers at the eastern end of Lambaness. Construction work was continuing in the winter months and the servicemen posted into the station would be able to see the sixe of the towers which would soon be supporting the main antenna.</div>
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<br />Gordon Carlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04360114502865961238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171230357168117236.post-10289108585187231872019-09-30T20:13:00.000+01:002019-09-30T20:13:00.818+01:00A History of RAF Skaw (AMES 56) – The Out-Post – Issue 8<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">This copy of the Outpost was issued in December 1941 and contains
a number of seasonal messages and a programme of forthcoming festive events.
One of the messages is from Captain WK Conachie of the Local Home Guard. The name
Conachie will be familiar to those of you with Shetland connections as the
family ran the main newsagents in Commercial Street, Lerwick, for many years.
Another notable event was the organising of a Christmas Party for local
children, a tradition which was resurrected after RAF Saxa Vord opened years
after the War ended. <em><strong>Left click on images to enlarge:l</strong></em></span><br />
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Gordon Carlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04360114502865961238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171230357168117236.post-61848463750728778852019-07-31T20:00:00.000+01:002019-07-31T20:00:02.136+01:00A History of RAF Skaw (AMES 56) - The Out-Post – Issue 7RAF Skaw, like many modern RAF Stations, produced its own magazine. It was published monthly and the first edition I have at the moment is No 7 (dated Nov 1941). The magazine gives a stark reminder that life in those days was very different. National Service brought together people from all walks of life and the wartime authority of officers and NCOs makes today’s versions seem totally innocuous. Rationing was strict, but in a rural/maritime environment like Unst, it could be supplemented by local eggs (both hens & gulls) and by fish. I have no doubt that the meat ration was augmented occasionally by the odd piece of mutton!<br />
Not many copies of each issue were produced, unsurprising when you realise that duplicating paper was not officially available. A chap called Harold Fisk, from East Anglia, was posted to RAF Skaw in the autumn of 1940. He was largely responsible for starting-up ”The Out-Post “. For a while he was in contact with my wife’s family and, apart from letters, he sent a couple of audio tapes. His account of how the Out-Post originated is below.<br />
<em>“After I got home to Southwold I went to where I’d worked when I first left school. There I used to do duplicates on a big Roneo. It was still there in the cellar, unused. so I got the proprietor to let me have it for use at the Skaw station. We had to take it to pieces and send it to Unst in separate parcels.</em><br />
<em>On the way back I called in at the Roneo firm in Edinburgh and explained that I’d need paper for duplicating and that I’d need about 100 sheets a week. They said that, as it was wartime, they were not allowed to sell any paper at all. After a bit of discussion they said they would GIVE us some paper and we could GIVE them some money, and that was how it was done. They used to send us about 100 sheets of paper and I would send them the odd 10/- now & again. </em><br />
<em>Anyhow, back at Skaw we put the Roneo all back together. I’d got the paper for copying, some of the blokes were good on the typewriter and we had several artists. So we got this magazine together, which we called “The Out-Post” and made about 20 copies per month. It was kept going for a long time”</em><br />
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A picture of Harold Fisk from 1997 is below:<br />
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Some of the comments in the magazines will be recognised by today’s servicemen – shortages of beer, complicated leave arrangements etc. Parts of the humour could almost be considered to be a precursor of the Goons efforts! Copies of further editions of “The Out-Post” will be published later and I hope to write a full section on RAF Skaw itself in the future.<br />
<strong>A copy of issue 7 of the RAF Skaw “Out-Post” is below</strong>. (Left click on pictures to enlarge).<br />
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Gordon Carlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04360114502865961238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171230357168117236.post-545526698114093632019-06-30T20:00:00.000+01:002019-06-30T20:00:07.411+01:00A History of RAF Skaw (AMES 56) -The Out-Post – Issue 6<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Issue 6 of the Skaw Outpost was published in October 1941. Left click on images to enlarge.</div>
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<br />Gordon Carlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04360114502865961238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171230357168117236.post-82665242809017339742019-05-31T19:00:00.000+01:002019-05-31T19:00:07.024+01:00A History of RAF Skaw (AMES 56) – The Out-Post – Issue 4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Issue No 4 of the RAF Skaw Outpost was released in August 1941. It was the first produced with the aid of a duplicator - the first 3 issues were typewritten and copied using carbon paper. Very few were circulated and I know of none which have survived. The issues I have had access to have been photocopied and scanned on a number of occasions and, therefore, the reproduction quality is very poor.</div>
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I have copies of 10 issues of the magazine and intend to
publish them all eventually. The ten editions I have are listed below but I
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1. RAF Skaw - Outpost - Issue No 4 Aug 1941</div>
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2. RAF Skaw - Outpost - Issue No 6 Oct 1941</div>
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3. RAF Skaw - Outpost - Issue No 7 Nov 1941</div>
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4. RAF Skaw - Outpost - Issue No 8 Christmas 1941</div>
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5. RAF Skaw - Outpost - Issue No 9 - Jan 1942</div>
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6. RAF Skaw - Outpost- Issue Nos 10 &11 Feb-Mar
1942</div>
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7. RAF Skaw - Outpost- Issue No 12 Apr 1942</div>
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8. RAF Skaw - Outpost -2nd Year - Issue No 1 May
1942</div>
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9. RAF Skaw - Outpost - Vol III No 4 May - Jun
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10. RAF Skaw - Outpost - Vol IV
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<br />Gordon Carlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04360114502865961238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171230357168117236.post-26160646303002520572019-04-30T18:00:00.000+01:002019-04-30T18:00:02.884+01:00A History of RAF Skaw (AMES 56) - Some Civilian Anecdotes<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "calibri";">SOME CIVILIAN ANECDOTES<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Shetland was particularly affected by WWII. The islands were
extremely important in the prosecution of the war, with large numbers of
servicemen based in the Northern Isles. The peacetime civilian population was
around 20,000 but, after 1939,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
strength of the garrison added another 20,000 to that figure. Unst was very <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>active militarily with elements of the Navy,
Royal Marines, Fleet Air Arm, Army and RAF all based on the island. The
interaction between local civilians and servicemen changed many lives forever.
Fortunately, a number of the people have recorded some of their memories. In this section I have released some stories from some civilians, anecdotes from some of the servicemen who were posted to the island appeared here: </span><a href="https://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.com/2019/03/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-56-some.html">https://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.com/2019/03/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-56-some.html</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Some of those who lived through the period were fairly
senior by the time their memories were recorded and some of the details they
recall may well be coloured by time. Occasionally more than one person
remembers the same incident but the "facts" surrounding an event may have been
recalled differently . I have resisted the urge to edit accounts and have
issued them as recorded. I'm grateful to the Unst Heritage Centre for allowing me to repeat some of these accounts which are held by them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">In thinking of
our young days here in Unst, it came to me that we </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.55pt;">had a quick change in our peaceful
ways when war was declared </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">on
<span style="mso-font-width: 125%;">3</span><sup><span style="mso-font-width: 105%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">rd</span></span></sup> September 1939. Before that most of the young men had to
leave Unst to find work, as the crofts were not big enough, and the </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.55pt;">fishing had failed. Most of them went
to sea and got home only for short spells between voyages which took them all
over the </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;">world. This
meant that many of them did not come home and </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">settle down, but married and settled down
"sooth". </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">Consequently,
there were always more lasses than boys at dances </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">and other entertainment.</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">Then the
war came and the balance quickly reversed with the first </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.6pt;">of the R.A.F. and Navy arriving in the
island. With workmen </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;">putting
up the camps and masts at Skaw and making and </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">improving the roads to Saxa Vord and Skaw, Unst was a very
busy </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">place indeed. The
Navy moved into Hamarsgarth and Springfield. </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">The R.A.F. took over the reading room and the hotel at
Nord and a </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.55pt;">detachment of
Marines were camped at the pier. Any local men </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">who had not been called up, or gone back to sea, were in
the Home </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Guard. Shetland
was right in the front line at this time. German </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">planes often came over and sprayed machine gun fire
at whatever they fancied, even the hens out in the rigs. I think they wanted to
</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">show us how vulnerable we
really were. I was postmistress in</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.266667px;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.55pt;">Baltasound at
the time and one morning, when getting ready to </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">open the Post office, there was a roar of a plane over
the house and </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">an awful
bang. This proved to be a cannon shell entering the roof! </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">When I got to the Post Office there
was a machine gun bullet lying </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.65pt;">on my writing table and windows and partitions with holes in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.6pt;">them. Next door at Sandison's shop,
windows had been riddled </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">too.
It was very lucky that the hit-and-run attack has been before </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">shop opening time. The Postmaster at Gutcher
was not as lucky as </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.6pt;">I was
that morning, he had gone to look at his boat and was </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">machine gunned and his arm was badly
broken.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: black;">Red Alert</span></u></b><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.55pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.65pt;">That year we
had many Norwegian folk who came across in </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">fishing boats and small boats, to escape from the Nazis,
who had </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">occupied Norway.
We also gave hospitality to quite a number of </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">British soldiers who had been sent to Norway as an
expeditionary </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.55pt;">force, but
were too late to stem the Nazi advance. Boats with seamen whose ships had been
torpedoed off our islands arrived </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">with their often tragic cargoes. About this time there was a Red Alert
in Unst, which meant that invasion by the enemy was </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.55pt;">imminent. A curfew had been set for
all Shetland, which meant </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">that
no one could be on the roads between the hours of 11pm and 5am unless they had
a police pass. I had a pass as I had to be out </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">early three mornings a week to despatch the mails. I had
to go to </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">the Post Office
at all times for urgent telephone messages too and I </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">had to carry my pass to get through
the Home Guard who were</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.55pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">sometimes on duty at the C.O.'s
office. It gave me quite a jolt, the </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">first time I heard that gruff, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Halt! Who goes there?"</i></span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.55pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Guard had some arduous assignments. Once a </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">Sunderland Flying Boat had been disabled and managed to
get in </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.55pt;">to Woodwick. The
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harbour was a busy place once more with all the Navy </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">vessels, MTB's, MLs and supply drifters
and sometimes a flying boat. A Walrus Seaplane, which acted as Postman for the
Navy, </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">came daily from
Lerwick with mail and dispatches. Once it failed </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">to stop and ran aground on the Bight of Dale. A big
Estonian </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">freighter, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"Valva" </i>had run aground there
in February 1940, the story of which is extremely well told by Adam Robson in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"The Saga </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: -0.4pt;">of a Ship".</span></i><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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that really aggravated us at that time was the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.5pt; line-height: 115%;">broadcasts from
Germany by the traitor we knew as Lord Haw-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.45pt; line-height: 115%;">Haw. On the day after the steamer left
Baltasound for Aberdeen </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; line-height: 115%;">with Unst cattle, he told the crofters in the
North Isles that they </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; letter-spacing: 0.4pt; line-height: 115%;">should have kept their cattle to eat when they
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found out soon after that there was a spy transmitting </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">information about all shipping from the
Queen's Hotel in Lerwick. </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">This
traitor was reported by Mr A. T. Clones, who was a linguist and </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">picked up the messages on his radio in
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article will start a spate of wartime memories in the </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%;">Blue Mull Triangle.
It is good to let the young folk know that war </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt; line-height: 115%;">was very different
from that often shown on TV, when the heroes </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%;">always come through
smiling. There was nothing romantic about existing on food and clothing
rationing and knowing that many of the companions of former days would not come
back. God grant sanity to the world so that such a war never happens again.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; line-height: 115%;">I spent the war years
as a teenager in Baltasound, Unst, living at Midgarth, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%;">just east of
Sandison's pier, where we saw many changes take place. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt; line-height: 115%;">In the summer of 1940 we looked out one morning
to see a number of </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.55pt; line-height: 115%;">tents down by the seashore. Overnight a
contingent of Royal Marines </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; line-height: 115%;">had arrived and set-up camp. They had come from
Lyness in Orkney to construct a landing slip to the west of Sandison's pier,
for small Walrus </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt; line-height: 115%;">seaplanes (or "Flying Boats"). At
about the same time a party of RAF </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.5pt; line-height: 115%;">men arrived to set up and operate an
experimental Radar Unit on the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt; line-height: 115%;">Keen of Hamar. The Airmen were installed in the
Nord Hotel and the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; line-height: 115%;">Baltasound Hall, with a few billeted in private
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Marines eventually moved into the big stone house near the pier. </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">They left again in September 1940,
when their job was completed. The </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">remains of the slipway they constructed can still be seen to the east of
</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">the new marina.</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.35pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">The little Walrus planes arrived in the spring of 1941. It
amazed us to </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">see them fly
in and land on the sea, taxi along and run up the slipway to </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">be "tethered" to special
posts set in the concrete bases made for them. </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.35pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">On the <span style="mso-font-width: 120%;">3</span><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">rd</span></sup> May 1941 one plane didn't
make it when taking off out of the </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.6pt;">sea at Baltasound harbour. It crashed on the beach below Dale farm. </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">The crew weren't hurt, but we heard
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the pier, MLs </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.55pt;">and MTBs
and Air Sea Rescue Boats. They moved in and out the </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">harbour on their various missions,
where to, we didn't ask.</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.55pt;">The Air Sea Rescue crews were billeted
in the old house that the </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.65pt;">marines
occupied. They sometimes threw a party and invited local </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">girls, when we danced to old gramophone
records in the Swedish Kirk. </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">We were treated to supper in the dining area of the stone house.</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.55pt;"> Other occupants of that same house
were men working on the </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">construction
of the big RAF camp at Skaw. They had been bombed out </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">of their quarters at Skaw by German
planes in early 1941, but they were soon able to go back.</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.55pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">The house of Springfield was then owned by the Sandison
family and </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">was taken over
to accommodate Officers from the various ships that </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">came into the harbour. </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">Later in the war a group of Commandos arrived and stayed
in the stone </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.65pt;">house. They
were tough and very frightening to us living so near. </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.55pt;">Violent fights would break out among
them and it was said that they </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.65pt;">threw live grenades and flaming Tilley lamps at each other. They </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">walked around with loaded guns, firing
at anything, just for practice. </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">Many old buildings were left scarred by their bullets. We were thankful
to wake up one morning to find that they had gone for good.</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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arriving to </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">unload
materials for the building of the camp at Skaw and buildings on </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.6pt;">Saxa Vord. The only inter island
crossings then were by small motor </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">boats, so all goods, except mail, came by steamer to Unst. Food and all </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.55pt;">supplies for the camps at Skaw and
Saxa were brought in by small </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.6pt;">fishing boats requisitioned for the duration of the war. Names I </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">remember are the; "Pilot Us",
"Amaranth", "Lord Curzon", "Research",
"Valkyrie", "Thistle", "Innovator", "Day
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">During all the war years a look out was kept on top of the
Keen of </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">Hamar, the men
who did this were mostly ex-Navy having served in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">the 1914-18 war and too old for active
service in the second war.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.55pt;">
These look-out watches were kept all round the island, the purpose </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">being to watch for and report every
movement of ships (convoys), airplanes, submarines etc. Each sighting was
reported and logged in a </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Secret
Publication Book, signed "Correct" at the end of each watch. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.55pt;">Four men did six hour shifts, changing
each week. The men who did </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">the
Keen of Hamar watch were; Charles Bruce, Peter Ned Mouat, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">William Sutherland, and my father John
Sutherland, also James Spence </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">and Peter Hughson as stand-ins. It was a long, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">hard six years for those
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">During the war years mines would break loose and float in
the sea, an </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">extra danger
to ships and even to those ashore at times. A huge mine floated in and got
stuck in a geo in the face of the Keen of Hamar in </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">early 1941.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the 28th January 1941 my Father was on
duty in the </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">afternoon when
the mine exploded. Huge rocks were blown to the top </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">of the hill and all around the watch
hut; he was extremely lucky to be </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">inside the hut and was unharmed</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.55pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.55pt;">We realised that war was near us when
in the first week of </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">October 1939, a
life boat reached Braewick, Saxa Vord, with nine </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">men on
board. They were half of the crew of a Swedish ship the </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">S.S. Vistula' </span></i><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">which had been stopped by a German U Boat </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">(submarine). The other half of the crew in the second
lifeboat did </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">not reach land. Two of the men climbed
the cliffs and started </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">walking inland
where they met two men, R Thomson and J Clark </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">from
'Valsgarth'. The rest of the crew were taken to 'Valsgarth', </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">several other houses helped accommodate them.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">On the 20th October the lifeboat from
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'S.S. Sea Venture' </i>came in </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">to Outer Skaw. All the crew were safe and were taken to
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">In early November 1939 we heard the
sound of aircraft to the east </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">of Unst. They
eventually appeared flying low over the wick of Norwick. They were German
planes on their way to bomb ships </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">that
were in Sullom Voe.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">On 17th Jan 1940 the British Ship <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'S.S. Polzella' </i>(4751 tons) was sunk </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">off Unst. There were no survivors. At the same time a
Norwegian </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">ship the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'Enis' </i>(1,800 tons), with a cargo of wood pulp destined for </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">Dublin, was set on fire. Both lifeboats got away with the
crew, </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">eight men in each boat. The Captain's boat with oars and
sail was </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">picked up by a trawler and landed on
the British Mainland. The</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">other boat, in
the Mate's charge, reached Unst. This boat had a </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">motor. The
men were taken to Lerwick on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'Earl of
Zetland'. </i></span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">The burning ship could be seen on the
horizon for several days. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">In April 1940 on a beautiful sunny
morning a lifeboat came sailing </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.65pt;">into Norwick.
We were alerted by my brother, who was on his </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">way
above our house at 'Valyie' to work on the Saxa Vord road. </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">Annie and I went down to see what it was and the boat had
just </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">reached the north side of the Taing.
It was the lifeboat from the </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">'S.S. Swainby'. </span></i><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">All the
crew were safe but the ones that had been </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">asleep
at the time of the attack had no time to get dressed so were </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">only in vests and pants with bare feet. We took twelve of
them up to 'Valyie', where we found jumpers and socks for them to put on </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">and gave them tea. We took two of them to the shop where
they </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">could get clothes. The shop sent the
account to the Ship Wrecked </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Mariners
society. The Captain and Officers were taken to </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">"Kirkatown"
and the 'Banks' and later in the afternoon a truck took </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">them to Baltasound so they could be taken on to Lerwick.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">Another ship, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'S.S. Stancliffe', </i>was sunk to the east
of Unst. A </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">lifeboat eventually came into
Haroldswick with the crew in poor </span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">condition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">In April 1942 a Norwegian boat with refugees was near Unst
when </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.6pt;">their engine stopped. Hearing the
sound of planes overhead, one </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">of the men took
his wife and two children in the small boat and </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">sailed
towards the land that they could see. </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">They
landed on Norwick Beach, just as it was getting dark. This family stayed </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">with us at `Sunnieside' overnight.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">The
Home Guard was formed and was led by Major W. Hunter. </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">The men were issued with a great khaki coat and a rifle
and had a </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">rota of service, in the evenings they
patrolled the coastline.</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">Soon men were called up for war service and many joined
the </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">RAF, Navy and Army. A lot of Unst men
were already in the </span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Merchant Navy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">The new
'Earl of Zetland' began service in 1939 but was soon taken </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">away for service elsewhere and the old 'Earl' was put back
on the </span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">route. </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">Supplies
to the shops kept up very well and with local croft produce there were no
shortages. Croft work went on as usual </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">with
work and forces men helping on their days off.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.35pt;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">When the
RAF Station was to be built at Hamer Skaw there was no </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">road to it, just a path from the 'Banks' to the top, so
work started </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">on widening the path and it had to be
extended behind Lowrie </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.65pt;">Laurenson's
house and over part of the 'Bartleskirk' croft. This </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">was in early 1940.</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"> In the
meantime hut sections were stacked on the ayre (beach) </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">until the road was ready. When it was completed and
traffic was ready to use the hill men were assigned to control traffic using
red and green flags as the foot and top of "The Floggie" were out of
sight from each other and there were no passing places. </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As there</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.35pt;"> was no source of water in Skaw it had to be taken up in </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">tanks on the back of a truck. A pipe was laid from the
'Valyie` </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">spring well along the road to the
lower end of the 'Floggie' road, </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">where
the tanks were filled. To ensure that there was no loss of </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">supply, Peter Hughson had the job of plastering the
outside walls </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">of the well with concrete. It was and
still is a perfect spring. Later </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">a dam
was built across the burn of Skaw, between Saxa Vord and </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">the Wart to supply. Until this was ready the water was
continued </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">to be transported up the 'Floggie'.</span></span></div>
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Contractors from Edinburgh had two trucks and employed a lot of men from Unst
and outwith the island. The </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">firm of J.L.
Eves from England erected the steel pylons. (Peter Moir </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">was a teenage worker with them).</span></span></div>
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personnel arrived as soon as the camp was ready. There were </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">no laundry facilities on the camp so their washing was
done at the </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.6pt;">local houses, so they soon got to know
the local people. There </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">were also some
Army Soldiers from the Highland Light Infantry (HLI) and the Argyll and
Sutherland Highlanders. The Royal Artillery manned the anti-aircraft guns.</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;"> </span></span></div>
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night dances were held in the Haroldswick Hall and it </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">was on its way to a dance that a lorry with workmen aboard</span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;"> slipped over the edge of the road, just at the back of
Lowrie </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">Laurenson's house. One man from Yell
broke his leg; there was no </span><span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">dance that
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<span style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">My father was Peter Moir, who hailed from Kinmundie in Aberdeenshire and had been introduced to Mum in a rather unusual way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had worked for the Watson Company that built the wooden and steel towers, carrying the aerials, for the early “Chain Home” radar system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The same ones that were to prove so vital, to our defence in WW2, by pinpointing German air attacks as they came across the <st1:place w:st="on">English Channel</st1:place>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He travelled all over the U.K. doing this work, and built the masts at the RAF station at Skaw in Unst, whilst there he worked with a local chap, Duncan Mouat from the Schoolhouse in Norwick.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">They retreated to the NAAFI, to console
themselves with a pint, and bemoan their fate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was about a half an hour later, when a general commotion ran through
the camp, word had been received that the lorry had had an accident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Going down “The Floggey,”<a href="file:///C:/Users/Gordon/Documents/New%20from%2029%20Oct%2016/1.%20ANECDOTES.docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
the steep road that connected <st1:place w:st="on">Skaw</st1:place> to Norwick,
the lorry had gone off the road and rolled down the steep slope at the back of
the house called “The Banks”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many were
badly injured although I don’t think anyone died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It later transpired</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">that the lorry’s brakes were
faulty, the drive</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">r</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"> had been in the habit of “changing down” as he started the
descent in order to slow the vehicle.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">This
time he had failed, to engage a lower gear, they had accelerated down the road
to their fate.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">Two quick thinking men,
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happen.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">Almost instinctively they had
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">He had run, the mile or so, back
to the camp and raised the alarm at the guardroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As there were probably few, if any,
telephones in the local houses it was probably the fastest way to get medical
help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amongst those on board was an old
family friend, Henry Hunter, he suffered a broken collarbone and other
injuries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The miracle was that anyone
survived at all! It should be remembered that back then, the road did not run
the course it did in the 50's 60's and 70's, with the long curved bend at the
bottom. It came down between the two houses that sit nearest the sea, known as
"The Banks" and the house of Laurence (Lowrie) Laurenson. The old
track of it is still visible, and some older photos of Norwick, show this road
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">I once saw a pay packet he had
kept from 1939; it came to £39-17/-7½d (£39 and 88.125p).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a considerable sum, in those days,
when the average weekly wage was about £2-10/- (£2.50).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reason was that when they reached a
height of 50 feet the “danger money” they were paid doubled and did so again
every 50 feet thereafter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of those
masts were 350 ft high!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I once asked him
if he ever worried about working at such heights, he said “no not really, once
past six feet you’ll break your neck anyway, six or sixty the outcome is
usually the same!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He gave it all up,
when conscripted in 1939, to join His Majesty’s Royal Air Force at the princely
sum of 6d. (2½p) a day!</span></span><br />
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<i>(This photo, sent to me by Norrie, shows the lower part of
one of the steel Transmitter Towers at RAF Skaw. I believe that the small posts near the foot of the Tower had
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The first person he met, when he
walked through the gates of his reporting station, was Duncan Mouat. They were
to serve together all through the war, doing their “square-bashing at <st1:place w:st="on">Blackpool</st1:place>, their physical training instructor was Freddie
Mills the famous boxer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next they were
on a troopship to <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>, via
Cape-town where they visited <st1:placename w:st="on">Table</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Mountain</st1:placetype>, and thence on to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Bombay</st1:city></st1:place>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>From <st1:city w:st="on">Bombay</st1:city> they crossed the Indian
continent by train, taking eight days, and then they caught another ship for <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Ceylon</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There they were to spend four years; serving
on the island now called <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Sri
Lanka</st1:country-region></st1:place>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Whilst there my father asked <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Duncan</st1:city></st1:place> for Mums address,
back in Unst, although he had seen her during his time there he had not
actually met her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Duncan</st1:city></st1:place> gladly obliged and he wrote asking her
to be a pen pal, she replied and they corresponded all through the remainder of
the war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the end of the war and
repatriation, he travelled to Unst to meet her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They must have hit it off as they were married in 12<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> 13<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>
or 19<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> of March 1947.</span></span></div>
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set up on the Ward of Bressay, I can remember my father remarking to me at the
time "Shetland could have had TV years ago!" When I asked how this
could have been, he told me the following story.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">At the end of the war, or shortly thereafter, a signal was
sent, presumably from HQ in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place>,
reportedly saying "Blow up the masts in Uist!" For whatever reason,
misreading, a typo, and or mis-routing, it was read as "Blow up the masts
in Unst!" This was duly done, the perception was that had they stayed up,
they could have been used to convey TV to the islands.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">©Norman. W. Moir.
Somerset, September 2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any writings
by me, are copyright, to me and to my immediate family, and may not be used in
any context, without the author's prior permission </i></span></span></div>
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Unst </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">during the war years (and for sometime after, told the
story of a </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">baby boy born at the Skaw camp on the <span style="mso-font-width: 115%;">22</span><sup><span style="mso-font-width: 110%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">nd</span></span></sup>
June 1941 to the wife of the then Clerk of works. The young woman refused to
leave her husband even for the birth, against all advice. When Dr Saxby and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">Nurse
Sutherland were called there, on a lovely midsummer day, they were refused
entrance to the camp as there was an air raid </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.7pt;">warning on.
When they finally got permission to proceed the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.55pt;">young mother
to be and an elderly helper were alone, as her husband had gone to his
emergency post. The baby was born at </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">0345 the next morning; both
mother and baby were safe and well. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">His father was still on duty when
the doctor and nurse left but the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.6pt;">next afternoon (Sunday), when they
went back the couple's </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.55pt;">minister, from Lerwick, was there for the
christening, and there </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">was a little celebratory gathering, which the
doctor and nurse were </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">to share in. After renewed warnings the mother
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home to "somewhere in <span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">England"
where it </span>was hoped they would be safe. I always wondered</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">what happened to them</span></span></span></div>
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baby boy </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">was named James Spellisey Palmer (pictured above with
his mother). The helper mentioned who attended the birth was Mrs </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.6pt;">Clark,
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from England, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.55pt;">to Bayes Photographic Shop in Lerwick asking if they
could </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.65pt;">supply her with photographs of Norwick, Unst. She
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and her </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;">husband were there she had a baby. My daughter Rita
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<br />Gordon Carlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04360114502865961238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171230357168117236.post-43856775965297859512019-02-28T22:15:00.000+00:002019-03-30T19:35:29.481+00:00Some WWII Direction Finding Sites in Shetland - Part 2 (amended 30 Mar 19)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Very High
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">I have visited 3 places in Shetland
where I believe that construction of VHF DF sites took place; at the western
end of Crussa Field on Unst, just north of Isbister on "Willies
Wart", Whalsay and at Eshaness on the Shetland Mainland. A fourth site on
the Hill of Swinister, south of Firth, also on the Shetland Mainland, was recently brought to
my attention. The Shetland sites appear to have been planned to the same design
but the first 3 I mentioned did not become operational and I don't know enough
about the site on the Hill of Swinister to make any comment on whether it
achieved active status. To begin with in this section I will
describe the remains at each location and, in succeeding paragraphs,
information from similar sites in the rest of UK will be used to attempt to
learn more about the 4 Shetland VHF DF units.<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">mains at this position
are the least recognisable of the 3 and I cannot be absolutely certain that it
was a D/F site!. It was begun on the western side of Crussa Field, a few hundred
yards west of the Rounds of Tivla. A slightly raised area of soil with, what
appears from a distance as a short, low
section of wall, on the northern side of the raised ground.</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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shape and small traces of broken glass and coal were discovered within its
boundaries. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no solid foundation
below<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the 8-sided section as, when
visited, there were 2 deep rabbit holes in it. The "wall" consisted
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this place more fully; firstly, there are more substantial remains and, more
importantly, I was fortunate enough to meet someone who was employed during the
building of the site. The construction of the operational element of the unit
took place on "Willies Wart" a small hill about 280' high, just to the
north of Isbister. A track had to be laid a distance of about half-a-mile from
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A large amount of interesting information was gathered from
a few Whalsay folk. Mackie Polson was able to say that there had been 2
generators at the foot of the hill and that a cable had been laid in a ditch
alongside the track up to the site. The two "engine beds" are still
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foundations of two nissen huts close by but that they had been hidden when more
modern developments took place:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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50 hp diesel generator from the site was converted to a marine engine and used
to power the fishing boat the "Bonnie Isle" when she was built at
Scalloway. George Polson, who was born in Isbister, was able to supply a lot of
useful data. When he left school in 1943 he was employed to work with the RAF personnel
who were constructing <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the site. George
was in the right place at the right time. He owned a Shetland pony and was
engaged to transport aggregate for the track and for the foundations at the top of
the Wart. His pay was 2s 6d (12.5p) an hour, more than <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>many a skilled craftsman could earn in those
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foundations at the top of the hill and that a 3 storey wooden hut was put up
within the wall. He thought that it was about 30' tall and a ladder was fixed
at the centre enabling ascent <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to the top
floor - there were windows on the top floor. He remembered being on the top
floor and dropping stones down through the opening for the ladder access. He
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from the enclosure can just be traced. It leads to the foundation of what
appears to have been 2 nissen huts:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of Swinister, Shetland Mainland</span></u><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;">. I
am grateful to Sammy Sjoberg for bringing this site to my attention. I have yet
to visit the location but intend to do so when the opportunity arises. First of
all, 2 photos sent to me by Sammy:<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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picture from Sammy and two pictures from Martin Briscoe:<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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following aerial photo belongs to Canmore (Royal College of Ancient and
Historical Monuments Scotland) and can be seen in it original context here
- </span><span style="color: #494948; line-height: 115%;">http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1682616 :<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Canmore picture above the domestic site is in the foreground, whilst the
octagonal walls are just the right of the rectangular building close to the
horizon in the centre of the picture. I will update the information about this
site if more data becomes available.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are numerous similar sites in the rest ot f</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">he UK, from
Orkney to the south coast of England. Not much information is readily available
about any one site but, together, the pieces of data from a number of sites can
give an idea of their role/s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">Some other UK VHF D/F Sites</span></u><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">. Some of the UK sites I have found reference to are shown below. They all seem to have/had octagonal walls, containing octagonal
concrete foundations, in common:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Sanday</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">, Orkney - http://photos.orkneycommunities.co.uk/picture/number26916.asp<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">Lybister, Caithness - </span>canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/314258/contribution/lybster/</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">Corse Hill</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">,
Aberdeenshire - </span>canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/142172/contribution/corse+hill/FNL7065320649/</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Scotstown Moor</i>, Aberdeenshire
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.8667px;">Llanerchymedd</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.8667px;">, Anglesey - </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.8667px;">https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5408984</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222;">Halnaker Hill</span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222;"> in West Sussex - </span><a href="http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2969486" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2969486</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent;"> and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vnpK1X4Od0</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Garway Hill</i>, Herefordshire - https://www.themountainguide.co.uk/england/garway-hill-photos.htm</span></div>
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Hampshire - https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5274112</span></div>
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they seem to have some common properties. The octagonal wall contained a 3
storey "windmill" type building 25 to 30' tall. It was wooden to
reduce the interference to radio signals and a number of descriptions refer to
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double-skinned, the gap designed to contain stones to provide a degree of
protection from attack. The need for inward-leaning wooden stanchions, with
their bases outside the wall to support the wooden building, is also a recurring
theme. Being VHF there was no need for large antenna, each element being just a
few feet long. The next picture is from the AP2521 and shows a mobile VHF
DF unit it the '50's. However it does give a good example of the size of
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Lister Blackstone or Crossley generators and there is some evidence that 110
volt DC power was used. Almost all the sites listed earlier are referred to as
VHF but there are variations in their assumed roles. However, the known RAF operated
sites nearly all refer to a "homing" role for friendly aircraft. The
three RAF sites in Shetland on Unst, Whalsay and at Eshaness were never
completed and I assume that was because their designed role was better
performed by more modern technology. Improved navigation systems like H2S, OBOE
and the later versions of GEE were proving to be very helpful. Certainly, RAF
heavier aircraft like the Lancaster, carried direction finding equipment which
enabled the crews to home in on signals from ground stations - at least some of
the RAF D/F units must, therefore, have been able to transmit as well as
receive - ie, they were not just "listening posts"</span></div>
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the next picture. It is of a site similar to the three in Shetland - at Garway
Hill in Hereford - and comes from a book entitled "</span><span style="background: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Garway Hill though the Ages" -
first published in 2007. The photo was taken in the mid 40's and is the best I
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use long after the war. This picture is from AP 2521A and shows a hut from the
early 50's, abeit with an external ladder and with the windows at a different
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of these VHF DF installations were constructed. The buildings were sometimes
octagonal, hexagonal or quadrangular. Sometimes the huts were wooden and sometimes
made of brick. Most sets were static but some mobile units were introduced. In
the RAF they became known as CRDF - Cathode Ray Direction Finding - and were
usually located on, or near, airfields. A picture of a typical 1950's RAF CRDF site:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">They were used as navigation
aids and for early QGH landings. QGH was a term used to denote procedural
descents through cloud. Using the DF site and airborne radio equipment aircrew
could descend in safe areas on safe headings when the ground was obscured by
cloud layers. The systems saved many lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I would be
happy to hear from anyone who has more information about WWII D/F sites in
Shetland. In the meantime, I would like to acknowledge the assistance I have
received from the following sources; however, the mistakes and misconceptions
are all mine!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Stan Ames<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The late Fred Barlow</span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sheila & Tim Briggs</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Martin Briscoe <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mike Dean <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Cecil Duncan <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whalsay Heritage (Marina Irvine) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">AP2521 Chapter 4</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some WWII Direction Sites in Shetland Part 1 is
here: </span><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: purple;">https://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.com/2019/02/some-wwii-direction-finding-sites-in.html</span><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">During WWII there were a number of Radio Direction Finding
(RDF) sites in Shetland. Some of these sites were to be later called Radar
units after the name was introduced by the US Navy and the US entered the war.
The Chain Home, Chain Home Low,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Naval
Coastal Defence U-boat and Army Gun Laying sites all became known as having
Radar equipment. However, there were a number of other sites which used RDF
principles, often referred to as "listening posts" or, more simply,
as Direction Finding (D/F) units. Some of these D/F units will be discussed in
this article.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The nature of the work was highly classified and few
personnel were attached to each unit - these factors have led to there being
little information readily available about this subject. When researching some
of the locations most information has been gleaned from the foundations which
remain long after the war and from a few contemporary<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>anecdotes - much of the chronology and the roles
of these units has had to be assumed. I have also been fortunate to receive
assistance from a number of helpful individuals. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There may well be other locations in Shetland
I have not discovered and I am no expert in the technology involved. I hope
this article encourages people with more details to get in touch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The roles of the units varied with some of them having more
than one purpose. Some were designed to be "listening posts "- just
to monitor enemy transmissions, others were used for the detection and location
of enemy assets (submarines, surface shipping or aircraft). A few sites worked
as "beacons", transmitting signals to help allied aircrew to
determine their location, eg after bombing missions. when accurate information
was sometimes needed to help recovery to airfields. In Shetland these D/F units
were intended to work in the Medium Frequency, High Frequency or Very High
Frequency Bands (MF = 300kHz to 3mHz, HF = 3MHz to 30MHz and VHF<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>= 30MHz to 300MHz). As a general rule the
lower the frequency the longer the antenna required. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will deal with the units I have researched
by Frequency Band and, because of software limitations, I have had to issue the
article in 2 parts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This section covers
the Medium and High Frequencies:</span></div>
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(MF) Sites.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have visited two MF sites, both just north of Sumburgh
Airfield at the south of the Shetland Mainland, one belonging to the Air
Ministry and the other to the Admiralty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Both of these sites required 4 masts, each of them probably 70' tall, to support their antenna.
The </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lower part of each mast would have looked similar to that in this picture
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I believe that they were both equipped with Marconi DFG.20 Direction Finders. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">They were situated on the eastern side of Ward Hill, Dunrossness. A
few details about the Air Ministry site first.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The next picture is an enlargement of the westerly mast base
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thanks to Cecil Duncan for the information that this unit
was staffed by civilians seconded to the Air Ministry. The late Andrew Halcrow from Walls in Shetland was recruited
by MI5 at the beginning of WWII to join a small unit initially called the Radio
Security Service. A few amateur radio enthusiasts with advanced Morse skill
were selected for this service and they became known as Voluntary Interceptors.
During the war Andrew spent some time on the UK mainland and in Orkney He also
spent some time at the Air Ministry DF station at Ward Hill. The following
picture, also kindly provided by Cecil Duncan, shows a civilian operator at
work on Ward Hill:</span></div>
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wireless transmitter set and lower down the corner of a R 1155 receiver can
just be detected. This equipment was normal wireless equipment in the standard
RAF WWII heavy bombers such as the Lancaster. Clearer images of the T 1154 and R
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transmitter in the Operations Hut </span>I believe it likely that this site may
have provided homing information to the crews of aircraft which had been
engaged against axis targets or, possibly, for relaying messages to and from
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about which I have some information lies about 1 km NE of the Air Ministry site
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"><u style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Admiralty MF Site</span></u><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">.</span>. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;">Aipleton was an Admiralty
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Aipleton MF element - the HF unit will feature later. Fortunately, in 2015 I was lucky to meet Geordie
Mainland who, as a teenager, worked on the site. Although in his 90's when I
met him Geordie had a cheerful character and an excellent memory and I am
indebted to him for some of the information below. Geordie had previously taken
part in the construction of two Admiralty radar sites on Fair Isle and, when at
Aipleton, his main role was as a messenger - delivering coded intercept messages
to the Shetland Naval HQ in Lerwick.
From Lerwick the coded messages were forwarded to Bletchley Park</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> for deciphering.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Bletchley Park, just NW of
London, was the home of the UK's WWII code breakers. Geordie was equipped with
a khaki painted ex-Automobile Association BSA M20 500cc motor bike.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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Aipleton MF site had more than one receiver , though possibly no transmitter - it's
specific role was intercepting & monitoring axis transmissions. Because the UK was unable to produce enough receivers of the right type an order was placed foe American equipment and numerous HRO sets were obtained - originally brought out for the Ham radio market in about 1935. There is a story that the HRO stood for "Hell of a Rushed Order". The set was manufactured by the National Radio Company of Malden, Massachusetts - thanks again to Cecil Duncan for the photo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">The unit
was Operational from August 1939 until the end of the war. </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">One of the Radio Operators at this site during the war was
the late Fred Barlow, a civilian from Heywood in Lancashire. He </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> had been a sub-postmaster at a telegraph
sub-post office in Blackpool before the war</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">. </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">His wartime "Certificate of Employment"
described him as a Civil Servant employed by The Admiralty. The Certificate
also stated that he was performing "Essential Services in War". The
picture below, taken from an Identity Card, shows what Fred looked like during this
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At Aipleton Fred had to work long shifts and was not too keen
to have to share his "digs" with someone else who was on shift at different
periods from himself, but accommodation was in short supply. He mentioned getting away from his workplace with some of
his workmates using a motor-cycle and sidecar, quite possibly the same vehicle
entrusted to Geordie Mainland. On his trips home to Blackpool, where his wife
had taken over his sub-post office duties, he took parcels of unrationed food, which
seemed to be more readily available in Shetland. Fittingly, Fred is mentioned on the Bletchey Park Roll of Honour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The unit was operational and the
equipment was active during the hunt for the German pocket battleship Bismarck
(Apr/May 41). One of the stations aims was to attempt to get a bearing on enemy
radio transmissions so that the information, together with similar information
from other sites, could be used to "fix" the position of enemy
surface ships and U Boats by triangulation. The other aim was to record enemy transmissions
and to forward the coded signals to higher authority. The speed of analysing
this information was important - hence the need for Geordies motor bike!.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1km NE of the Air Ministry establishment and about 1km east of the main Lerwick
to Sumburgh road. There was a billet, probably for some of the Admiralty/civilian personnel and a
building for storing fuel, approximately 3 or 400m west of the operations/mast
area</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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similar fashion to those at the Air Ministry unit, each mast having 4 cable
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The MF site was manned 24 hours a
day by a watch of 3 or, possibly, 4 people. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The small, brick-built building to the
south of the billet, had a metal door and was almost certainly used to store petrol for the
generators and vehicles:</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">According to Geordie Mainland,
the Commander of the site was "ex Navy", possibly an ex Swordfish
gunner, who had a French sounding name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">With all the secrecy surrounding
this site it is impossible to say how successful it was in providing useful
data but, according to Geordie Mainland, the unit continued operations until
the end of WWII.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">High Frequency
(HF) Sites.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">T</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">here are 2 WWII H/F sites in Shetland that I have looked at closely and, possibly, a third that I was recently informed of, but I suspect that there may have been
others</span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The 2 sites I have examined are
at Aipleton, north of Sumburgh, close to the Admiralty MF site, and on Crussa
Field in Unst. Before discussing more details of each site it will be simpler
to describe the similarities between the sites. There were a number of types of
HF D/F equipment in use by the Allies during WWII but the Aipleton and Crussa
Field units were basically alike. Most D/F sites used "Adcock
Antenna" which consisted of 4
masts, equidistantly spaced in the form of a square. Each mast held an antenna,
the size </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;">being dictated by the frequency used - the lower
the frequency, the taller the masts. The
two MF sites operated in the range 300 kilohertz to 3 megahertz and required
tall masts. The 2 HF sites discussed in this section would have worked in the
frequency range 3 megahertz to 30 megahertz and therefore needed much smaller
masts, about 30' in height .</span></span><br />
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HF sites at Aipleton & Crussa Field appear to have been equipped with
Marconi DFG. 24 Direction Finding sets.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span>Operations
were conducted from smaller huts which had no protective blast walls. A typical
war time HF unit, similar to the establishments at Aipleton and Crussa field,
is shown in the following picture: </span></span></div>
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on duty at a time. Both huts would have required power from an outside source and have had the means to pass on
significant data rapidly (phone/radio). Apart from a receiver the hut would
have been equipped with an item called a goniometer, like the large, circular
display near the centre of the next picture, which was taken in England during
1943:</span></div>
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foundations of this unit are a short distance north of the MF site and, at ground
level, they can be difficult to locate. The HF equipment used power from the
generator/s within the MF site blast walls. In places it is just possible to
see where the power cable trench was dug and, although it may mean leaping a few drainage
ditches, it is possible to follow the route which can be seen faintly in the
Zoom Earth image below:</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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x trenches were dug radiating from the hut in approximately N,S,E & W
directions. Copper tape and/or wire was laid in these trenches to provide
screening to help amplify the radio signal (or possibly just for earthing).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The establishment was closely
associated with the MF site and some of the personnel possibly shared the same billet. According to Geodie Mainlland the hut was usually inhabited by one person at a
time and Geordie did not relish approaching it to deliver or receive messages,
especially during the hours of darkness. The single occupant was armed with a loaded
revolver and always drew the weapon before opening the locked door to see who
was outside. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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surrounded such units it has not been possible to discover any official
accounts detailing the specific work carried out from the site <o:p></o:p></span>but, like the adjacent MF site, it was
operational from Aug 39 until the end of the war.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Crus<b>sa Field, Unst HF.</b><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;">The layout
of this unit was very similar to the one at Aipleton just described. However,
Aipleton was controlled by the Admiralty, whereas, this unit came under the Air
Ministry. It was situated on Crussa Field to the NW of Baltasound and just SE of
the archaeological site known as the Rounds of Tivla. Once again, as with
Aipleton, I was fortunate enough to talk
about the site with someone who had actually seen it when it was operational.
The late Eileen Hunter of Baltasound was just a child about 7 years of age when
she visited the hut but, luckily, Eileen was possessed of a marvellous memory. Four of the RAF personnel who worked on the
Unit were actually billeted at Eileen's family home, Milbrae at Baltasound and
she remembered their names. They </span><span style="color: #222222;">were: </span>Leslie Sessions, Larry
Perkins, Tony Hunter and W.E. (Gerry)
Gerrard. Gerry Gerrard returned to Uns<span style="background: black; border: 1pt none black; font-size: 0pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span>t on holiday after the war. He was a commercial
artist in civvy street and was known to be quite a character - a copy of one of
his sketches below: </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The remains of the HF site are
not as well preserved as those at Aipleton, possibly because (according to
Eileen Hunter), it was only operational for about a year (perhaps in 1943 or
1944).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The places where the 4 masts
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Eileen remembered the Hut as
small and manned by one person at a time. She was able to recall a single chair
and a table with some kind of electrical equipment on it. Part of the
electrical equipment included a circular display - this was likely to be a goniometer,
similar to the early model seen in the following picture:</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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radio transmissions from a receiver. I found no evidence of the communications
system used from the site. It was possibly a telephone, with the cable buried
close to the site to help prevent possible interference to the DF equipment.</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"> Power to the equipment would have been
provided in one of two ways; either, a portable lightweight, petrol fuelled generator
would have been placed near to the site or, a heavier diesel engine would have
been located further from the equipment
and a cable laid to the top of Crussa Field. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have heard stories that the remains of a WWII generator bed
lie under what appears to be a white roofed building marked in the next picture, in which case a
cable would have to have been laid about half-a-mile up to the hut:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The purpose of the HF
site on Crussa Field is not obvious to me and I have no official data on the
subject. Being an RAF unit could
indicate that it may have been used to act as a "beacon" to
assist in the recovery of allied aircraft which had been engaged in operations
over Norway or on long Coastal Command sorties. If it were used for obtaining
information on German aircraft bearings an efficient and rapid system of
communication would have been required
so that, when combined with bearings from other sites, expeditious data
on those aircraft positions could be calculated.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This DF site I had not heard of until recently
when I was sent the photo below by Cecil D</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;">uncan. The photo is held in the
Shetland Museum and shows an Air Ministry site just to the NW of Lerwick:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It looks as if the larger mast in the
middle is a standard 90' timber tower, frequently used by the RAF. It appears
to be in the centre of 4 shorter masts, each at the corner of a square. Each of these masts seems to be a
single pylon, perhaps 50'' to 80' in height. I have been to the area once (on a cold and
very windy day) but little remains apart from one building and some
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of the site and would welcome information from anyone who can help. At a guess,
I would suggest the 4 pylons were part of an MF or HF DF system of a different type
to the Crussa Field and Aipleton sites but still using an Adcock aerial layout.
The single 90' tower is of the type that the RAF used for VHF communications,
so it is possible that the unit was capable of both MF or HF and VHF operations. I
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The proliferation of radar onboard HM ships at sea resulted
in a shortage of trained <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>RN radar
operators and therefore the Admiralty arranged to transfer two Admiralty
Experimental Stations (AES1 Sumburgh & AES6 Dunnet Head) to the Air Ministry.
AES1 came under RAF control at 12.00 on 4 November 1943. In this <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>section I will deal with the period from Nov
43 to the end of the War only. At the time of the takeover the Unit had the
following equipment: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a CHL Type 2 (1.5m
wavelength, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Frequency 200 MHz), a Navy
Type 273 (10 cm Wavelength, Frequency 3.000 MHz) and Mk 3 IFF.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I am not certain as to the location of the two main radars
but I presume that the CHL Type 2 remained in situ at Sumburgh Head, where it
had been installed for AES1, and that the NT273 was on top of the combined
Transmit/Receive Block (sometimes known as a CHL 1941 Building). Little of the
RAF Grutness site remains but I have marked the location of a few of the
structures on this next, modern, aerial image:</span></div>
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currently uses, the old Transmit/Receive Block. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few recent photos of the site follow:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">This late in the war the records of operational events are
sparse<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and frequently relate to friendly
forces. The events described below have been gleaned from the National Archives:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">On 17 Jan 44 Hostile H500, a Ju88, was shot down off
Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Grutness was one of a number of stations which
passed plots on the German aircraft enabling the interception to be achieved. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In March 44 the centimetric search radar was
overhauled (NT273) and during April the rest of the electrical equipment received
its quarterly maintenance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">On 2 Aug 44, Fg Off RS Clark assumed command of the Station
and at the end of the month the effective strength was 1 Officer, 1 SNCO and 32
airmen, whilst 1 SNCO and 8 airmen were recorded as <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>being on detachment or leave - FS Strachan,
SNCO in charge of the Technical Section, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had been attached to No 9 Radio school. It was
noticeable that the Aug 44 reports were signed by "Lt Kerry for OC",
so an RN presence must have remained long after the RAF assumed control of the
Station. It must also be recorded that valuable help was provided by Canadian
Radar Technicians from the RCAF at many of the British radar sites, including RAF
Grutness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">On 11 Sep 44 the Unit successfully plotted <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a formation of about 100 friendly bombers heading
out bound (destination unknown ). In October an aircraft was picked up showing
a distress signal and tracked for 132 miles, later the Station was
congratulated for the accuracy of the plots which had been passed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A little later, on 10 Oct, a group of 10
Lancaster bombers were detected to the NE of the radar and were visually seen
to land at Sumburgh - it was believed, but not </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">proven, that they were aircraft
which had been on a mission to attack the Tirpitz in Norway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">November was a notable month with one aircraft plotted to a
range of 205 miles on the 11th. The following day the 12th was busy, with large
numbers of ac tracked. The first was a group of 50+ picked up to the south of
the station heading north early in the morning and. Around 10 hours later a number
of incoming aircraft were detected 60 to 90 miles north of the station heading
south, probably aircraft returning from the morning group. These aircraft were
probably taking part in Operation Catechism - the final (and successful) attack
on the Tirpitz.</span></div>
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leaving the radar ground returns at about midday and were seen to return about
4 hours later as individual tracks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">On the same day the unit had given valuable assistance when a
Warwick air sea rescue plane developed engine problems off Whalsay and had to
jettison its lifeboat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was forced
down on to the water and personnel at Grutness gave visual signals to the High Speed
Launches and Spitfires involved in the rescue operation - only 1 crew member was
lost, the other 5 were saved. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Vickers Warwick was similar, but larger than the more famous Vickers Wellington
Bomber. A picture of a Warwick of the same type is below:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">On 12 Jan 45 another group of
50+ aircraft was picked up 183 miles south of the Station at a height of
20,000'. The group was plotted for over 200 miles before fading from the radar
cover. The next longest range detection during Jan was at 170 miles to the SE, on an
aircraft flying at 14,000'<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On 29 Jan, 2
aircraft showing a distress signal from their IFF equipment were seen to the SE
at a range 0f 50 to 60 miles. The track disappeared into the overhead clutter
on the radar display but a visual sighting on 2 Beaufighters was obtained. One
of them was observed to crash into the sea 3 or 4 miles west of the station.
The position of the crash was quickly passed to the Filter Room and it was
later confirmed that 2 airmen were landed safely.</span></span></div>
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recorded that there were no officers on the strength of the station, just 37
ORs and that Flt Sgt Strachan was in charge of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>RAF Grutness. March was a warmer month and the radar was reported to
suffer from anomalous propagation on the 23/24th - the radio beam was bent in
an abnormal fashion, resulting in responses from beyond the usual range of the
equipment. By the end of the month Flt Sgt I Dumayne was in charge of the
station.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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for just 13 hours a day. On 17 May a Blenheim Mk IV from 526 Sqn flew 5 test
runs to check the performance of the radar. The flights were all to the east of
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">RAF Scousburgh became operational on the 28 Oct 42 as part of the
Northern GEE Chain, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>GEE being an RAF
Navigation System. The other stations in the Chain were at Burifa Hill, near
Dunnet Head in Caithness, Windyheads Hill, near Pennan in Aberdeenshire and
Sango, Near Durness in Sutherland</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The GEE System entered RAF
Service in 1942 and was the first<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>operational hyperbolic navigation system . It was later followed by
systems such as OBOE, LORAN, DECCA NAV etc. It used the time delay between two
radio signals to provide a fix. Exact timing was essential within each Chain
and the system was accurate to within a few hundred yards at distances over 300
miles, ideal for Bomber and Coastal Commands. Each Chain required a master
station, slave stations and a monitor to check signal timings between the sites.
In the Northern GEE Chain Burifa Hill was the master and also provided the
monitor. Scousburgh, Sango & Windyheads Hill were slave stations. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All GEE unitss were allocated Air Ministry
Experimental Station (AMES) numbers in the 7000 series - I believe Scousburgh
was also known as AMES 7321.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The operational and technical
site was constructed on the Ward of Scousburgh (863'), in the south mainland of
Shetland, about 5 miles north of Sumburgh Airfield:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman";">There was no road or track from
the base of the hill to the top of the Ward when the location was selected and,
therefore, vehicular access had to be provided before the major construction
could commence . A metalled road was laid for about three-quarters of a mile up
the steep eastern side of the Ward of Scousburgh.</span><span style="color: #333333;"></span><br />
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not ready when the Station opened and personnel had to be accommodated at the
Chain Home Radar Station at RAF Noss Hill, which was nearly 4 miles away to the
south west. The Scousburgh troops would have been housed in a camp which used
to occupy the area in the foreground of the following picture (Loch of Spiggie
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman";">The records</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman";">for Noss Hill record the fact that the
Station began to get overcrowded from Sep 42 when the unit was required to
start accommodating the personnel assigned to RAF Scousburgh. In Jan 43 the
heaviest Shetland snowfall for years occurred and Scousburgh staff were
required to make </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman";">watch changeovers on
foot in bad weather with deep snow, walking a distance of 4 miles and ascending
the 863' hill. I believe that the domestic site for the GEE personnel was ready
by Nov/Dec 44 and was occupied by Christmas. Most of the buildings were Nissen
Huts and the camp was located to the east of the Ward near the Loch of Clumlie:</span><br />
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accommodation was required to house the Army guard force. The plans called for
the site to accommodate approximately 140 RAF servicemen<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and about 40 from the Army, there was also
space for an unspecified number of NAAFI Staff. Opposite the living quarters
and slightly higher up, on the west side of the main road between Sumburgh and
Lerwick, a water tank with chlorination facilities was built. A recent
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the construction of two massive 350' steel towers for the main and reserve <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>transmitters and two 90' wooden towers for the
Receivers. The next picture also belongs to the Shetland Museum and was taken at
a place called Robins Brae, about two miles south of the Ward. The large
transmitter towers can be seen clearly and the two receiver towers are just to
the right of the left-hand 350' tower:</span></div>
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this photo below, also from the Shetland Museum. The steel towers are at the
left of the picture and the two wooden towers can just be made out to their
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to house the equipment and the personnel associated with it. The huts are long
gone but they were surrounded by blast walls and two of these structures remain,
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The main power supply came from
generators in a Power House, which was situated between the two 350'
Transmitter Towers. However, I have been unable find any trace of it during
visits to the site. An uninterrupted power supply was considered essential for GEE
stations and Scousburgh was provided with a Standby Power House (often known as
a Standby Set). At Scousburgh the standby generation equipment would have been
in a hut, surrounded by blast walls. The blast walls (repaired) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were still standing <span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> in 2015:</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Although Scousburgh was an
operational unit, its function was to provide navigational assistance, not to
detect enemy aircraft or to launch missions against German assets. Life on the
station was governed by the need to ensure electronic transmissions were
continuous but this does not result in a particularly exciting and eventful
history! A few of the more interesting details are recorded in the paragraphs
which follow.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">In Nov 43 defence courses began to
be run for all personnel, with instruction being given by members of No. 2801 Sqn
RAF Regt. From the end of February into the beginning of March 44 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the main array feeder runs were renewed -
600lb of copper wire (a scarce but vital commodity at the time), was used in
the process</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at each of the Northern GEE Chain units
were instructed to ensure that "before marching-out" the RAF Regt
personnel at each unit were to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>dismount<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Hispano cannon and
twin Browning machine guns (together with their mountings) and store them in
the Station Armouries, in case they were needed for future use. There were 3
emplacements for 20mm cannon and they are still visible today. The records
indicate that the weapons were<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hispano
Suiza but, from the remains of their positions, another expert has suggested
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been .303" calibre, about 8mm, smaller and more mobile than the 20mm
cannon - I have not found the remains of any of their positions. The Browning
guns could have been planned for use as ground defence weapons rather than as
anti-aircraft defences.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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foreground of the next photo may show some of the remains of the wartime Piquet
Post (which was also equipped as a First Aid Hut), just inside the entrance to
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<span style="color: #333333;">On 30 Sep 44 two receivers
arrived for monitoring in connection with AMEs 713 LORAN Station at Skaw in
Unst. LORAN was similar to GEE but a later American development. Scousburgh was
not required to transmit but just to monitor the signals of the North-East<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Atlantic LORAN Chain, of which Skaw was a
part, to ensure accuracy in the timing of transmissions. As such, Scousburgh
would require fairly basic equipment and a reasonably simple receiver antenna.
It is possible that one of the two 90' Receiver Towers was used for this
purpose. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the 13 Nov 44 Scousburgh
commenced<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>monitoring LORAN transmissions
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was struck by an aircraft on 24 Dec 44, which resulted in damage to the
obstruction lights and to associated wiring. Damage was also caused to wooden
ladders on the Tower. Essential repair work was completed by 27 Dec although
some of the cabling for the obstruction lights was not fully repaired until Jul
45. From 23 Apr 45, as other units released technical spares and test
equipment,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scousburgh was selected as a
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not seen any indications as to how it was celebrated on the Unit. With effect
from 1 Nov 45, the CO of Scousburgh (Flt JE Patterson at the time) became
responsible for the RAF radar units in Shetland which had been placed on a
caretaking basis (Grutness, Watsness & Clett (Chain Home Low, with Type 2
radars) and Noss Hill (Chain Home with a Type 1 radar).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stayed operational for almost a year after VE Day but by Apr 46<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"all Northern Chain Gee Stations were in
the process of being converted to a care & maintenance basis". On 1
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<br />Gordon Carlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04360114502865961238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171230357168117236.post-75467340537099058562018-11-20T19:00:00.000+00:002019-10-01T16:25:42.730+01:00Lt Richard Feachem, RNVR - Wartime Service (AES1 to AES7) - Part 2<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">AES7 - </span></u></b><b><u><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Sæból, NW
Iceland</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">In May 1940 British & Canadian forces invaded and occupied Iceland
because of its strategic importance and to deny the Germans access. In 1941 the
Admiralty decided, in the light of the U Boat threat in the North Atlantic and
the danger of German surface raiders getting among allied merchant shipping,
that a Coastal Defence U Boat Station should be constructed in NW Iceland to
provide radar cover in the Denmark Strait between Iceland and Greenland. It
should be noted that the Bismarck and Prinz Eugen had transited the Denmark
Strait just before sinking HMS Hood and damaging the Prince of Wales on 24 May
41 -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this engagement may have hastened
RN actions. At its narrowest point the Strait is 180 mile wide.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Accordingly, Lt Jack Addison Lewis (qualified as a Civil Engineer),<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>RNVR and Captain MacDonald, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a Royal Marine Engineer, plus <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a number of naval personnel were despatched to
Iceland to begin the work of erecting AES7. To begin with the labour force
consisted of Royal Marine Engineers and some local Icelandic men. Lt Lewis had
been the first CO of AES4 on Unst until 17 Jan 42 so work would have begun as
soon after that as the arrival of equipment and the weather would have allowed.
Weather was to be a far more significant factor at AES7 than at the other 6
AES, as will be seen in some of the photos which follow. Lt Donald Macaulay Carmichael,
RNVR, soon arrived to join Lt Lewis to help run the operational unit. There
appears to be little material published about this station so I have included
some material from Feachems collection which applies to the period<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>before he arrived in Iceland.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The station was built near Sæból, NW Iceland, between Aoalvik and Ísafjörður<em>. </em></span></span></div>
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The base camp was built
near sea level close to the shore of Aoalvik Bay and the first radar, an
NT273, was set-up on a knoll close to the nissen hutted accommodation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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still be<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>detected. The next two pictures
were, taken from "Zoom Earth" and, for those of you with a desire to
look for the site, I think that the Lat & Long of the accommodation is: 66°
20' 22.19N<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>23° 6' 2.44W.</span></div>
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base camp can be seen in the next photo. The tall masts were for radio
communication.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The tallest tower
contained the fresh water supply, the four circular structures in the right
foreground were cooling towers for the generators and the nissen hut on the
left was the officers' quarters:</span></div>
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was very isolated with all equipment, personnel and supplies having to be
brought in by sea from Reykjavik, about 180 miles away. In the beginning small
craft had to be used to move supplies from larger vessels to the shore and in
1942 a short pier was built, complete with a narrow gauge track to make it
easier to bring<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>shipments across a
narrow stretch of boggy ground. The photo which follows shows the pier and,
next to it, a 30' Norwegian boat called "The Viking",<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>provided by the Admiralty. It and local boats
were used to unload<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>freighters in the
first year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the picture below Lt
Donald Macaulay Carmichael is leaning against the wheelhouse and one of the
Icelanders<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the water is Benedickt
Magnussen: </div>
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<span style="color: #545454; font-weight: normal;">The movement
of stores was greatly improved in 1943, when two beach landing craft were made
available.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pictures show some of the crew and two of the officers who were there early on.
I don't<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have a list of names, the only
identities for those in the photos I have are for the officers in the middle of
the back rows. Lt Jack Addison Lewis in the first and Lt Donald Macaulay
Carmichael in the second</span><strong>:<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #545454; font-weight: normal;">The only
other serviceman I know who did a tour of duty at AES7 was Leading Seaman<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Smith, who can been seen in the following
photo, taken on Fair Isle in 1940. According to Feachem he<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"became a useful Leading Seaman in
Iceland":</span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #545454; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Two of the </strong></span></em><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Sæból inhabitants;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>firstly an
unknown local<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>tending his potato patch:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #545454; font-weight: normal;">and;
secondly, Benedickt<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Magnusson, whose
brother Jon was a leader of the community<em>:</em></span></div>
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its radar cover due to shape of</span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">
</span></b>Aoalvik<strong> </strong><span style="color: #545454; font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bay - it was used in1942 as a stop-gap until
access to an<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>upper station was
constructed on a plateau at an altitude of approximately 1,600 '. Before the
upper station could be completed a great deal of work on providing access was
required. Firstly, a road<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was laid to
the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>plateau:<o:p></o:p></span></a></div>
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The road was impassable to vehicles once the winter snow arrived. Supplies had to be sledged from the base camp to where,<strong><em> </em></strong><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on the steepest
part of the slope, a stretch of 2'gauge railway had been laid. It had a petrol
driven Ace winch at the top and another half way up, the winch cable having to
be unhooked and changed in the middle:</span></div>
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over 16 cubic metres and weighed more than 2 tons. Once the equipment or stores
reached the upper winch there was still nearly<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>a mile to go across the plateau to the radar. The road had been laid all
the way to the upper radar site. However, there was sometimes snow on the
plateau for 9 months of the year -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this
problem was first solved in traditional manner<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>- teams of ratings and sledges: </span></div>
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sometime had to be used all the way from the base camp and connected to the
winches!</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;">Accommodation, the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NT273 radar
(possibly an NT273S) and associated equipment had to be moved from beside the
Base Camp and erected on the plateau when the weather was suitable - not an
easy feat with snow on the ground between Sep 41 and Jun 42. Deep concrete
foundations were laid for a turntable (normally used as a gun mounting), <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and a radar hut was mounted on the turntable.
The radar aerials and their reflectors were then fixed to the sides of the hut
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required to serve 12 months in Iceland. Feachem arrived in the Spring of 1943,
shortly after handing over command of AES6 at Dunnet Head. A second<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>radar, the NT277 became operational in 1943.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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site followed by three weeks at the base camp at </span><span style="color: #222222; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Sæból in the winter months, changing to two week shift pattern in the
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it was very weather dependent and watch changeovers were often delayed.
Accommodation at the radar site consisted of two double-skinned, streamlined
huts, joined by a low corridor. The huts were specially made by the firm
"Car Cruiser Caravans". Behind them was nissen hutted space for
stores, messing and a diesel engine for power:</span></span></div>
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regular delivery of potatoes and onions. To rectify this, a barter system with
the local inhabitants was introduced. Issue rations, such as corned beef, were
exchanged for small amounts of fresh meat, eggs and fish. It was noted that, in
the Spring, a boats crew could catch enough cod in one afternoon to feed the
Station for a week. Leisure pursuits, apart from fishing, included riding local
ponies in the summer ans skiing in the winter. A few of the ratings volunteered
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in Oct 43, so it was probably then that Feachem left for a spell of leave
before commencing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a tour of duty at the
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Orkney, was built on the top of Ward Hill at a height of about 390', roughly 3
miles south of the community of St Margaret's Hope. South Ronaldsay itself lies
at the south eastern corner of Scapa Flow, anchorage for the Home Fleet during
WWII. In RAF terms it was a Chain Home Low, and later a Chain Home Extra Low,
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had just spent 12 months working in an Admiralty post in London and was looking
forward to putting his previous experience on radar units to the test again. I
believe that the equipment when he arrived consisted of a Naval Type 277S, a
radar with a 10cm wavelength and optimised for the detection of surface targets</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span>the unit also had a height-finding radar, a Type 13 (Mk 1). The Type 13
Mk1 was originally intended for use by the Army but they were not keen on the
equipment and they rejected it. The manufacturer, Marconi,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>produced only 13 sets and they were
subsequently offered the Navy. It was designed for providing the height on
incoming aircraft and operated on a 10cm wavelength. The equipment was mounted
on a searchlight type trailer and the signals were fed to a separate cabin. The
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men are serving a long way from home, it is sometimes necessary to become
involved in delicate matters. The name of the seaman in the letter below has
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his arrival and time on South Ronaldsay:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <span style="color: #31849b; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 191;">"We drove
round the harbour, past the Church of Scotland hut into the village, up the
main street of some 200 yards, past the squalid Murray Arms Hotel, round a
difficult and dangerous corner and up a steep hill, past the Army Sick Quarters
and the NAAFI on into open country. The road undulated, first up a long rise
and then down with Widewall Bay to the right, then up past a little school to the
corner from which the south end of the island could at last be seen. The radars
on the Ward Hill had been visible since leaving Thurso, but now they could be
distinguished as a set of aerials on low dark buildings at the top of wide Ward
Hill. As the car swept along the range of the base huts could be distinguished.
Round a corner, down a dip and then up sharply the car turned abruptly from the
road to the track leading to the camp.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">
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a little more than 12 months away it was a great relief to be back in a
wardroom of one's own again - for the whole habit of those previous 4 years was
not lightly forgotten. --------------- I assumed for the last time the command
of an AE Station. I could make a contrast between this and my other commands.
First, AES1, when the war was young and the work was new - not only new to us
but to the crews, and indeed, to the technical staff whose task it was to
create the instruments we were to use. Second AES3, then eventually AES2 as
well, the only double command in these northern stations. Here the strain of
1940 had overhung the routines, and although the routines were becoming familiar,
there was still a lot to learn - lots about the slowness of events beyond one's
control - structural programmes and replacements. Lots about weather, and men
and marines and the enemy. Then it was AES4, for 2 short periods as relieving
officers on leave. Then AES1 again, and then AES6 on Dunnet Head where, being
on the mainland, one was subject to visits from all kinds of officials. Then
the great experience of AES7, Iceland's remotest station for servicemen, naval
radar's biggest job, once again pioneering. But coming to AES5, which I had
never seen before, in December 1944 was not as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>coming to other commands had been, I knew all the answers to all the
standard questions - knew when to be patient against the forces of nature, with
men, with facts, above all, not to worry uselessly. I found as I handled the
daily and hourly problems that they were just like handling the controls of a
familiar car which one hasn't driven for some time. There was a quintessence of
the experiences at other stations which had, perhaps aided by the twelve months
away, been welded into an Achievement, a Profession. Here though, there was a
greater accord with the men than had been possible in the circumstances of the
other stations. The Petty Officer Daniel D Moreland for example, took me down
to the local AA (anti-aircraft gunners) mess, for an evening with beers, songs
etc, at frequent intervals - crude but comradely. My songs were delivered the
first night with such nerves as I cannot describe. But it worked; and it welded
AES5 as nothing else could</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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normal struggles - no food because of the snow, no watch because of faults in
the apparatus - and so on, all overcome satisfactorily. And the war, the German
war, was won although Orkney and Shetland remained on unaltered watch for two
weeks for fear of surprise desperate German<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>raids from their as yet uncapitulated airmen in Norway. Then the station
started disintegrating. Groups of men were posted elsewhere until by the middle
of August we were an about half strength, about 25 men. Watch was now kept by
day, watching training flights. Then came the end of the Japan war, VJ day, 15
August. Still a few men remained until, on the 8 September we all left, handing
the station over to the RAF lock, stock and barrel. We drove for the last time
down the hill, and as we left there was only one of the AE stations left under
RN operations - Wilkinson still has Saxa Vord, though not for long.
------------ In the last light of the calm September day I saw the aerials of
the Ward Hill and of Dunnet Head gaunt against the now peaceful skies. The last
command was ended nine months after it had begun."<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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three machine gun posts and possibly an anti aircraft gun emplacement in the
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #494948; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">After the war was over Feachem was released from the Royal
Navy in 1946. Making use of his University qualifications from Cambridge he
resumed his career as an archaeologist. From 1947 until 1965 he worked for the
Royal Commissions on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS).
He did much field work and produced many learned papers. He wrote extensively
on Scottish, Celtic and Roman settlements. He also researched early agriculture
in the UK, again publishing his findings. Whilst at RCAHMS Feachem discovered a
large amount of useful archaeological information by studying RAF aerial
photographs with a stereoscopic viewer. At some stage during his time with the
Royal Commission he met and married Kathleen, also an archaeologist. They each
continued working individually<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and with
others, but completed a number of "digs" together, including a Viking
house at Drimore in South Uist and at Duncarnock Hill Fort in East Renfrewshire.
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Prehistoric Scotland", which was dedicated to his first wife Kathleen
Megan Feachem</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">. </span><span style="color: #494948; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;">In 1965
there followed "</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The North Britons : the
prehistory of a border people". The Guide to Historic Scotland sold well
enough to be revised and reissued in 1977. this edition being<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dedicated<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>to his son, Richard Charles Alexander Feachem.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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wife Dr Anne Ross, a Celtic scholar who was a fluent Gaelic speaker, in 1965. This
is also the year he left the RCAHMS and</span><span style="color: #494948; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"> began working as an
archaeologist with the Ordnance Survey</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">. Anne wrote
numerous books on Celtic history and mythology, the most famous being<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Pagan Celtic Britain", first published
in 1967 and reissued a number of times. She appeared in several media programmes
as a Celtic <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>specialist, even
introducing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8 episodes of "The
Celts" for the BBC Radio 3 in 1967 and appearing in another series of the
same name for BBC TV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in 1987, but she
was most proud at having lectured at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington,
DC. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Ordnance Survey Feachem left to become a freelance archaeologist . This allowed
him a degree of independence and the opportunity to contribute to several of
his wife's books as an illustrator. Unfortunately he died in 2005<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and his wife Anne in 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #494948; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Richard Charles Feachem for
permitting me to reproduce material from the collection of his father - Richard
William Feachem</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Richard Feachem was born in 1914 and went to school at Wellington
College in Berkshire. His full name was Richard William de Fécamp Feachem, but
was known by most of his peers as "Dick". The " de Fécamp "
part of his name came from the area of Normandy, France where his family
originated from, but was dropped fairly early on. He graduated from Cambridge
University in 1937 with a degree in Archaeology. In the two years which
followed he managed to see some remote parts of the world most of us have only
read about. In 1937 he was a member of an expedition to NW Greenland and the
Canadian Arctic . The following year he was an archaeologist with the Cambridge
West Greenland expedition. A 36 minute (silent) video from the Cambridge trip
can be seen here:
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-cambridge-west-greenland-expedition-1938-1938-online<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On one of these two expeditions a
geographical feature was named in his honour - Feachem Bay, on the eastern side
of Baffin Island. </span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Just before the war it was realised that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>experienced, specialist Naval officers would
be in great demand if hostilities broke out. As a civilian Feachem <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was selected, initially with 3 others, for a
new role within the Admiralty - the installation and operation of a number of
Coastal Defence U Boat Stations (CDUS) using Radio Direction Finding (now
normally called Radar). The four people initially selected were recent
University graduates with experience of expeditions/exploration. They were all eager
to join the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) when offered the opportunity to
contribute to the war effort. The other three graduates chosen were: George Clifford
Evans (a Biologist), Donald Macaulay Carmichael (a Philosopher) and Jack
Addison Lewis (a Civil Engineer). They were all commissioned as Sub Lieutenants
on 10 Oct 39, their paths frequently crossing over the next few years. Six CDUS
were built in N Scotland, Orkney and Shetland during 1939 and 1940. A seventh
CDU was later constructed in Iceland in 1942. The seven radar sites were known
as Admiralty Experimental Stations (AES) and numbered 1 to 7. Feachem had the
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based AES all began life with versions of the radar known by the RAF as AME
Type 2, which equipped many RAF Chain Home Low (CHL) sites and it should be
noted that there was a Royal Navy presence at many of these RAF stations to
pass surface plots the appropriate maritime authorities. Although the AMES Type
2 was poor at picking up low level targets, in many cases it was the only kit
available. In Shetland there were to be naval plotting cells at the RAF CHL
stations at Clett and Watsness.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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RNVR and his son, Richard Charles Feachem,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>has kindly allowed me to use his father's material in producing this
article. Each of the AES sites will be dealt with in the order in which he served
at them and, at the end, I will give a brief outline of Feachems' distinguished
career after the war was over.<span style="color: #7030a0;"> </span>He spent a significant
amount of time at these units in the following order: In Part 1 - AES1, AES3/2,
AES4, AES1 (again), AES6, and in Part 2 - AES7,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Signals Department at the Admiralty and, finally, at AES5. It is in that
order I have dealt with his wartime service in producing this summary.<span style="color: #7030a0;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Sumburgh/Grutness</span></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">AES1 was the first of the CDUS to be constructed. The unit was
operational within 4 months of the decision to build it. The three photos
below, from the late Lt Dunworth, show the arrival of some of the equipment at
the dock in Lerwick and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>AES1 under
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The radar was located by the Sumburgh Lighthouse at the Southern tip
of the Shetland Mainland and it became operational in December 1939, with a
permanent watch being maintained from 27 Dec. Feachem was in Shetland and was
at AES1 by Dec 1939. Later in his career he was to illustrate a number of books
but, even at this early stage, he drew some interesting sketches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, this picture of an early aerial
and gantry:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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first the aerial frames were made of 2" Oregon Pine but this broke in
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Shetland were posted to HMS Fox, the name given to all naval shore-based
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associated infrastructure was incomplete. The first group of ratings had to be
accommodated in Sumburgh House Hotel and had to be transported to and from work
in a van. A copy of a receipt, made out to Sub Lt Feachem<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for accommodation, is below: </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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not clear. He was certainly busy, making visits to Unst & Fair Isle amongst
other duties. A few junior naval officers, other than Feachem, are also recorded
as being at Sumburgh in the early months of the war, including Dunworth, Evans,
Lewis and Sand. They were possibly gaining experience of the new RDF (radar) equipment
and operations before the later AES sites were opened.</span></span></span></div>
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Feachems,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>so the copyright is uncertain:
however, in Feachems words: <span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">"<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">This view of
Sumburgh Head was taken from a drifter on the way to Fair Isle at the end of
1939. It shows the pair of original wooden-framed aerials, the receiver on the
left: and the lighthouse and foghorn towers which together with all other
buildings and walls belonging to the lighthouses remained white, hopefully
under provision of the Geneva Convention."</i></span></span><span style="background: black; border: 1pt black; color: #365f91; padding: 0cm;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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than 2 months based at Sumburgh before being posted to Fair Isle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">AES2/3 Fair
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">In Jan 40, Vice Admiral Somerville visited Fair Isle to reconnoitre
possible sites for the construction of CHL radars. It is highly likely that he
was accompanied by Sub Lt Feachem and Sub Lt Evans, who were with the Admiral
on Unst for a similar mission in the same month. Because of the topography and
the need to provide radar cover in multiple sectors, it was found necessary to
erect 2 radar sites on the island. Lying roughly half way between the Shetland
Mainland and Orkney (location of Scapa Flow and the Home Fleet), it was
considered essential to provide a surface detection capability in both the
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The radar equipment arrived on the island on 5 Jan 40, accompanied by
Sub Lt Irvine and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the first batch of naval
ratings to man the radars were drafted in with Sub Lt Feachem on 23 Jan 40. The
photo below, from the collection of the late Lt Dunworth, shows the assembly of
the Transmitter aerial at AES2. The first radar (AES3) became operational on 23
Feb and AES2 followed a few days later. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>AES3 was sometimes known as Fair Isle South
and AES2 as Fair Isle North.</span></span></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Throughout Feachems' <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>tour both
AES2 and AES3 operated with the original type of Chain Home Low equipment,
ie,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>separate Transmitting and a
Receiving Aerials at each site. It was only after Mar 42 that both sites were
each converted to single aerial operation.</span></span></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">A<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>detachment of 20 Royal
Marines, under the command of a SNCO, arrived in Jun 40 to provide air defence.
They were equipped with 2 x Vickers and 2 x Lewis machine guns. Later on 2 x
20mm Hispano canons were added as a number of German aircraft had visited the
island. Some of islanders were in the Home Guard and, fortunately, a few of
them had their own weapons,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Later the naval complement was housed at a place called "
Punds", but in March 1941 it was destroyed by fire. By Mar 42 a new hutted
site at North Haven was completed. It was for up to 60 personnel from both AES
2 and 3. The army ground defence force, which initially consisted of 1 officer
and about 20 other ranks from a "Scottish regiment",<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were given the remains of "Punds".
However, in the opinion of naval staff, these army personnel were not suitable
for the job and were later replaced by Royal Marines. This next picture,
from<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Shetland Museum Photo Archive,
shows the North Haven accommodation as it was in 1950, just before it began to
serve as the first Fair Isle Bird Observatory:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">When the two sites opened Lt Donald Macaulay Carmichael was in charge
of AES2 and Feachem was the CO of AES3. In Oct 40 Carmichael handed over to Lt
Wilkinson. Feachem remained in post until early in 1941, when he passed over command
of AES3 to Lt George Clifford Evans. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lt
Carmichael, who was there during the first part of Feachems' tour, appears in
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Two major incidents, which occurred<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>on Fair Isle that Feachem was involved with were; the crash landing of a
Heinkel 111, which had been engaged on a weather reconnaissance and the crash
landing of a Spitfire from No 1 Photo Reconnaissance Unit (PRU). </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">At the time of the first incident Feachem was the CO of AES3. The
Heinkel, which had take off from Oldenburg in North Germany, had been attacked at
about 8,000' by Hurricanes <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from 3 Sqn based
at Sumburgh on 17 Jan 41. With one engine out of action, the other failing and
2 crew members injured, the pilot, Leutnant Thurz, had little option but to put
the aircraft down on Fair Isle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unfortunately, two of the five in the crew were killed in the crash. The
survivors were captured by Islanders, including members of the Stout
family<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- I believe the front row in the
photo below shows Willie Stout, George Stout, Lt <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Carmichael and Dr Griffiths from Bristol
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The 3 survivors were shipped to Mainland, Shetland on the Lerwick Life
Boat on the 19th. Leutnant Thurz returned to Fair Isle in 1980, when he met
James Stout who had witnessed the crash landing! This poor photo of the makers
plate from the Heinkel has come from the Feachem collection:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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tanks, had burned furiously and then died down somewhat, those ratings present
who were not either carrying off the wounded or escorting the prisoners went to
the machine and salvaged what they could from it and beside it. Ldg Tel
Cheeseman, before the war a Sub-Officer in the London Fire Brigade, entered the
shell of the after part of the 'plane, which was still burning in the forward
part, and brought out the radio set, the meteorological instruments, a camera
and a book of W/T operating signals. These articles, together with a map also
salvaged, were sent to the NOIC Lerwick, with the prisoners. Ldg Tel Cheeseman
was not injured or scorched.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His action
lead directly to the salvaging of the articles mentioned: he was also of great
use in warning over-enthusiastic ratings from getting into danger uselessly.</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Ldg Tel Cheeseman, mentioned in the report above, is in the centre of
the following picture next to an Austin car, which had been shipped in to the
island as RN transport:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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J (30 March 2009), Fuselage of Heinkel He-111 on Fair Isle ,
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crash landing of Spitfire X4501, flown by Flying Officer M Hood. The aircraft
was returning from a photographic reconnaissance mission to Aalesund in Norway,
when it developed an engine problem. Hood had to make a belly landing on Fair
Isle. The aircraft, painted a pale blue, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was extensively damaged but the pilot was
uninjured. Hood, with the camera magazine from the aeroplane, was taken to the
Shetland mainland in an RAF High Speed Launch. Feachem who at the time was CO
of AES1 at Sumburgh,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>must have made an
excursion to the island aboard either the High Speed Launch that collected the
pilot, the "Good Shepherd", the Lerwick Life Boat or the drifter
"Research", all of which visited the Island shortly after the event.
He was able to take this picture before the later removal of the aircraft:</span></span></div>
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on the summit of the hill directly in front of the aircraft and AES2 is on the
right. The aircraft was partially dismantled<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>by an RAF salvage party and shipped to mainland Shetland. It was
probably carried in two loads on the drifter "Research",<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>shown in this picture from the Shetland
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long way from any establishment capable of reconstruction, it was possibly
considered "beyond economic<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">AES4
Saxavord</span></u></b><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> (Saxa Vord to the RAF)</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Feachem<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>spent less time at AES4
than at any of the other CDU's. I have records of him being on Unst on three
separate occasions, a reconnaissance visit in Jan 40 to look for a site to
construct AES4, a period as a relief Commanding Officer in Mar 41whilst the
regular CO Lt Jack Addison Lewis was away visiting AES5 & 6 and on leave, and
a visit on "technical duties" in Jun 42. An article about AES4 has
been previously issued in two parts; here, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/admiralty-experimental-station-4-unst_30.html<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and here http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/admiralty-experimental-station-4-unst.html
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period, there are some interesting records about the life of the station in the
Feachem<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Collection. The Admiralty
requisitioned a house at Haroldswick, called Hamarsgarth, to serve as
accommodation for the AES4 personnel. The domestic facilities were later
extended by the addition of two wooden huts and two nissen huts. This 4 photo
montage shows the rear of Hamarsgarth, with Clibbeswick on the left and the
Heogs on the right:</span><span style="background: black; border: 1pt black; color: black; padding: 0cm;"> </span></span></div>
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been a butcher before the war), turned Hamarsgarth into a valuable resource for
supplementing rations. Vegetables were grown and animals, particularly chickens
and pigs, were reared. This next picture, taken by the front porch at
Hamarsgarth, show a few Sunday dinners:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">With German troops occupying Norway, many Norwegians became refugees
and attempted to escape to UK in small boats. Significant numbers of them, men,
women and children, made landfall on Unst. To assist the efficient processing
of these arrivals the Commanding Officer of AES4 was made an Honorary Norwegian
Vice Consul, as can be seen in this extract from a ledger held by Charles
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vessels arrived on Unst and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>would have
resulted in a significant workload for the small Naval complement. This next
photo, from the Feachem Collection, shows one of these boats aground by the
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</span>attack from a low-level German bomber. It machine-gunned the operational
living quarters and engine house, the Receiver gantry also suffered some hits.
One bomb was released which landed about 20 yards south of the Receiver Hut,
bounced, then exploded about 80 yards north of the Transmitter Hut. It left a
crater about 10' deep but did no significant damage. The aircraft then made off
and attacked the RAF CH Station at Skaw, two miles away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: #494948; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;">During the first week of May there was a visit by
representatives from various organisations including, 70 Wing, 71 Wing, 60
Group and theTelecommunications Research Establishment (based at Worth Matravers
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in Dorset at the time). The visitors
were there to look at the re-siting of the Unit to Compass Head, about a mile
north of Sumburgh Head. The Sumburgh site, next to the lighthouse, had a number
of problems. The lighthouse tower, other buildings and the foghorn caused some
oscuration to the radar signal, whilst the Transmitter and Receiver aerials had
been positioned too close to each other for maximum efficiency. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: #494948; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="color: #494948; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;">Haste, the need to provide cover to the south and accessible
high ground were some of the factors when the Admiralty chose the Sumburgh Head
site. However, there were objections from, amongst others, The<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Northern Lighthouse Board and the Ministry of
Shiiping. Their protests were because it was believed that a military unit
sited next to a lighthouse, contravened protocols in the Geneva Convention. At
the time the Admiralty expressed the view that there was no problem as long as
there was no attempt to act covertly, ie, to hide the installation - they went
ahead anyway. Perhaps one of the reasons for the move to Compass Head was a
change of opinion by the Navy.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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buildings at Sumburgh Head and certainly, the senior keeper Tom Hughson and his
wife, lived close to the radar:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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at Compass Head for the Director of the Signal Department at the Admiralty.
Generally, the report was very favourable and noted that radar cover should be
much better than from the current site. Aerials at the proposed site would be slightly
higher than the aerials at the lighthouse and the location should provide good
detection capabilities through 130 degrees, from Fitful Head to the south west,
round to the the east coast of Shetland to the north. He undertook to submit
further reports if there were more developments to the plan. A modern photo,
showing the relative positions of the 2 sites, is below:</span></div>
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were recorded due to long periods of fog. However, it must have had an effect
on the personnel as Feachem noted in the monthly report that the foghorn
sounded for 165 hours, that the horn<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>blew every 9 seconds and that the blast lasted for 7 seconds. It must
have been very annoying for those unused to it, especially as the foghorn was
only 7 yards from the Transmitter Hut!! This recent picture shows how close the
two structures were - the building in the foreground was the Transmitter Hut:</span><br />
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radar was greatly improved. This was due to the equipment being overhauled and to
the decarbonisation of the diesel engines by a new Stoker Petty Officer called
Mathews. Detection ranges on aircraft were now in the region of 130 to 140
miles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shipping was also seen at longer
ranges, eg, the SS St Magnus III (1,530 tons) was picked up at 54 mies, though
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tons, visited the south of Shetland. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
had two 15" guns with a range of over 22 miles. The opportunity to go on
board to observe how her radar systems worked was taken by Feachem and Lt
Evans. The ship was also used to help calibrate the CHL equipment. It was known
that she was moored 8 miles out from the lighthouse on a bearing of 080
degrees. It was a bad angle for AES1, being largely obscured by the foghorn.
Nevertheless, she was fixed to within 2 degrees, though the range was over a
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new site at Compass Head had started on 1 Sep and that steady progress on the
approach road and hut foundations was being made. There was a good display of
the Northern Lights on 18/19th and 19/20th Sep, followed by a few days of high
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of the radar continued, with one enemy aircraft being seen to the NNE at a
range of 153 miles. Progress was being made on the Compass Head site but poor
weather had caused some delays, with both snow and gales being experienced. The
wind had caused the loss of 50 operational hours at Sumburgh when the aerials
had to be lashed down. Feachem took leave from 2 Oct to 25 Oct 41, during which
time Lt Angus Orr assumed command of AES1. In his report for Nov 41 Feachem highly
commended the excellent service which had been given by 2 RAF Radar Mechanics,
Kennedy & Baldock, who had maintained the station since Jun 40, sometimes
in very difficult conditions - they were being replaced on promotion to the
rank of Sergeant. He also made the observation that the work of the RAF Radar
Mechanics at AES2, 3 & 4 was worthy of similar praise.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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third year of operations. He also commented on the good cooperation which
existed between the Fair Isle CDUs and AES1, the interest and skill of the
telegraphists being particularly helpful in passing plots quickly and
efficiently. The report went on to say that all the AES had had an influx of
new personnel, mainly volunteers. Whist most of these men could be taught basic
radar theory and, with experience, became reasonable operators, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there were some beyond training. Feachen
suggested that, before arrival, new personnel prove that they could at least
write and use a telephone!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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to replace VT58 valves in the Transmitter with VT98 valves, which it was
thought should result in a great enhancement to the radar performance. As the
CHL equipment had been operating so well before the changeover, little
improvement was noticed at the time. However, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feachem stated that a major advance was to be expected
when the Unit was converted<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to a single
common transmit/receive aerial system by the RAF's 71 Wing. This conversion was
actually carried out between 16th and 18th Feb 42 and almost immediately increased
detection ranges were observed, with some aircraft responses seen at more than
200 miles. The best recorded detection was at 226 miles on the 26th of the month.
In the next photo from the Feachem Collection, the new common Transmit/Receive
aerial can be seen above the old Receiver Hut; note the now vacant old
Transmitter gantry to its left.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #494948; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;">The new CHL system continued to produce excellent results
into Apr 42, with returns from high ground (permanent echoes) from as far away
as Aberdeenshire and the hills around Bergen in Norway. There were also good
aircraft returns from all round the area of interest, including numerous plots
at over 200 miles.The "Atlantic Special", a frequent German
reconnaissance flight, passed though the radar cover during early mornings - 18
such flights taking place in April.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Although fighter intercepts had been attempted and occasionally the
aircraft radar responses had merged, no success was achieved. Feachem suggested
that fighters with airborne intercept radar were needed because of the lack of
proper daylight at that time of year. Nearly all of these recce fights passed
close to Sumburgh between 04.00 and 06.00.</span><br />
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attached to the station were suffering from problems caused by service
accounting mix-ups. They were not receiving their proper allowances and, in
fact, were also being debited with sums they didn't owe. The worst debt now
stood at more than £32, a large sum in 1942. He recommended that the matter be
attended to before the men were posted as it would be more difficult for
personnel at another station to understand the situation.</span></span><br />
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which was assumed to be because of rapid requests from the Filter Room to
change sweep areas, "tired" valves and work on the aerial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A photo of some of the Sumburgh Lighthouse
buildings from the first half of 1942 from the Feachem Collection follows, the
van is parked outside the senior keepers quarters: </span></span></span><br />
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on the site had been repainted grey from their original white, leaving the AES
white buildings to appear very prominently. The naval ratings were set to work
toning down the radar building by painting them in a similar wash to prevent
them standing out from a distance. Following work on the equipment, the
performance of the radar had improved considerably, with 15 aircraft being seen
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was resolved. Work at Compass head continued satisfactorily, with most of the
outside construction complete. Work had begun on the interior of the main
building but decisions regarding the Standby Power House were awaited before
the floor could be laid and appropriate wiring installed. The remains of
the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Standby Power House at Compass Head
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replaced by Lt Wilkinson, RNVR. His return to Shetland was aboard the SS St
Magnus (pictured earlier), which sailed from Leith & Aberdeen to Lerwick.
On 15 Aug a Spitfire from Sumburgh was seen to crash into Quendale Bay, NW of
the station, unhappily the pilot was killed. He was Sergeant Schaeffer who had
visited AES1 just five days earlier and seemed to have been a very keen
individual. The aircraft was probably a Spitfire Vb from 164 Squadron (known as
the Argentine-British Sqn due to the number of volunteer Argentinian airmen on
its strength). The radar was off the air twice for prolonged periods in August,
the first time for quarterly maintenance and the second time for a turntable
change. Preparations at Compass Head were progressing well. In the common
Transmit/Receive Block the wiring and floors were complete, the Transmitter was
in position and the Receivers, extra Plan Position Indicator (PPI) and Plotting
Tables were in the building. Foundations for the new Navy Type 273 radar were
also in place. The main problems were the absence of the new aerial, motor and
framework plus the lack of jointers to connect the main power cables. </span><br />
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believe that Lt Wilkinson, RNVR, arrived in Oct 42 and formally took over the
Unit on 3 Nov 42. I do know that Lt Feachem took over AES6 at Dunnet Head,
Caithness, on the UK mainland in Nov 42.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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1940), and was initially commanded by Lt DM Carmichael RNVR. Like AES5 it was
what the RAF called a Chain Home Low and a Chain Home Extra Low site. It was
located at Dunnet Head, the most northerly part of the UK mainland, and very
close to Burifa Hill - an RAF GEE site, part of the Northern Gee Chain.</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">It was very close to the Naval Base at Thurso which,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in Feachems time, was commanded by Captain
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Feachem<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>took over the Unit in
Nov 42 and left early in 43, when he was relieved by Lt Astley. At the time Feachem
arrived the station was equipped a CHL radar, I believe with a single
Transmit/Receive aerial, and an NT273<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>radar which had 3' diameter parabolic<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>dishes</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>inside a perspex cylinder known as a
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detection of surface plots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the
war Feachem returned to Dunnet Head and the next 2 pictures were taken amongst
the ruins of the site. The first shows Richard Feachem himself in June 1965,
alongside a building which had been used as a plinth for a radar, possibly the
NT273 or the later NT277S, which was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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The first shows what appears to be the base of a CHL radar 20' gantry in front
of an operations block:</span></span></div>
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recently, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>follow and are used (with
permission) from this excellent site: http://www.anti-aircraft.co.uk/<br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Located on the UK mainland and close to the rail head at Thurso, AES6
attracted far more than its fair share of visitors, from senior officers to
more junior ranks, plus some civilian "scientific advisors". Being very close to the large Naval base at Thurso; it probably had less independence than thew other AES. Also,
due to its situation close to a number of airfields (Skitten, Wick, Castletown
etc) and busy shipping routes, the station usually plotted greater numbers of
tracks than the other northern CDUS. Feachem left early in 1943.</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Part 2 of <span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><strong><u>Lt Richard Feachem, RNVR <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- Wartime<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Service (AES1 to AES7 </u></strong>is here: <a href="https://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.com/2018/11/lt-richard-feachem-rnvr-wartime-service_20.html">https://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.com/2018/11/lt-richard-feachem-rnvr-wartime-service_20.html</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #494948; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;">Richard Charles Feachem for
permitting me to reproduce material from the collection of his father - Richard
William Feachem</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #494948; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #494948; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #494948; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #365f91;"></span></em><em><span style="font-family: "calibri";"></span></em><span style="font-family: "calibri";"></span><br />Gordon Carlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04360114502865961238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171230357168117236.post-67554909848820833202018-10-31T18:00:00.000+00:002018-11-01T13:24:08.477+00:00A History of RAF Skaw (AMES 56) - Post War Skaw<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">RAF Skaw did not close immediately after VE Day (Monday 8
May 45), ships were still at sea, Coastal Command had ongoing operations and
there was the remote possibility that some German aircrew would not accept that
the war was over. VJ Day, 15 Aug 45, marked the end of the war in Far East. The
Skaw Chain Home Station actually ceased reporting on 4 Aug 45 and was placed on
care and maintenance with effect from the 22nd - two weeks later. However, some
classified experimental work kept some of the equipment operational and a few
dedicated personnel on site for a period after this. The operational history
notes that in Oct 45 "Both Channels of the Type 1 AMES at SKAW (the Chain
Home Radar) on a "caretaking basis" have been overhauled by a Wing
party: authority had not been received as yet from HQ 60 Group to lower the
Transmitter curtain arrays" Then there is an entry on 21 Nov, which says: "Type
1 Skaw: Gave instructions for this Station to become operational for the
limited purposes of research on Air Ministry instructions".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Early in the New Year ('46) there are further entries: "The
Type 1 at SKAW, although on a care and maintenance basis, has been carrying out
transmissions for experiments in Porto Rico. The R.N.A. (Radio Navigation Aid) channel
at SKAW has been placed on a caretaking basis, and it has been found impossible
to carry on with experimental transmissions. Authority has been sought from HQ
No. 60 Group to cease transmissions on the type 1" and, on 24 Feb 46 it is
recorded that; "The experimental work being carried out at SKAW was
discussed with M.3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was pointed out
that this section was holding two mechanics at SKAW for this experimental work,
and it was requested that information be obtained as to the probable duration of
the experiment. M.3. pursued the matter with HG No. 60 Group, but since Air
Ministry and WASHINGTON are involved, no immediate decision could be given".
So far I have not been able to discover the nature of this "experimental
work" with US. It may well be unrelated but, the Loran navigation site,
AMES713 at Outer Skaw just north of RAF Skaw, closed down on 20 Feb 46 and was
placed on care & maintenance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">At one stage the number of servicemen based in Shetland
during WWII peaked at over 20,000. All of these men had to be fed, accommodated
and transported.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As early as 1946, it
was realised that it would not be economic to ship much of the less valuable
material back to the UK mainland. In the next few years many items were sold
off within Shetland and the opportunity for those civilians with a little
capital to purchase items like nissen huts, wooden huts , barrack room
furniture and some vehicles, existed. Unst with Skaw, the Navy radar on Saxa
& the Home Guard would have had plenty of material for disposal. However,
at the time when the Transmitter and Receiver towers were demolished in 1947,
much of the Domestic Site was still standing. The following photo, taken from
the top of one of the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>360' Transmitter
Towers, was sent to the late Lexie McMeechan by Leslie Smith:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The decision to dismantle the RAF Skaw Chain Home site
(along with a number of others), was not long in coming. The Towers were blown
up in 1947. The following photo from an Unst History Group Calendar shows the
northerly 360' Transmitter Tower in the process of collapsing, with the hill of
Saxa Vord in the left background:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Unfortunately this<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>tower landed on the roof of the uninhabited
Transmitter Block, where it caused some damage, as can be seen in this picture
from Leslie Smith:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The 240' wooden Receiver Towers came down more successfully,
but I have no idea what happened to the tons of Douglas Fir they had been
constructed with - but I could make a few guesses, wood being a scarce commodity
on Unst!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">As can just be seen in the left<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>picture above, the 105' Mk3 IFF mast is still standing but it was probably
lowered, using the cable guys, soon after.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">After a short time the only structures left were those which
had been built with concrete and bricks (Bunkers, Power House, Cook House, Air
Raid Shelters, etc). During Aug 54 the land, which had been occupied by the Air
Ministry for RAF Skaw,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it's Remote
Reserve and subsequent Loran site, was derequisitioned (ie, returned to its previous
owners).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Coincidentally, 1954 was when preparatory work on the
construction of RAF Saxa <span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">,
<span style="font-size: small;">with its Power House and Bulk Fuel</span> <span style="font-size: small;">Installation,</span> began</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once again many workers from Shetland and the
UK Mainland were needed for the projects and it is quite possible that many of
the civilians who helped build the WWII sites in the Islands and some of the ex servicemen who
worked on them were involved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In the period since RAF Skaw closed the land the military
occupied has seen many different activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Primarily the area has been returned to crofting use but many leisure
pursuits have also taken place. For a number of years the personnel from RAF
Saxa Vord had a self-maintained golf course, the Standby Power house has been
used by local boat owners to provide shelter for maintenance work and for a
while the galley for the Norwick Up Helly Aa was assembled in the building. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The headland at Inner Skaw has become a place for rock
climbers to practise their hobby on its cliffs and, with its extreme
north-easterly position, it makes an attractive landing point for rarer
migratory birds which can attract many "twitchers".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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erected for navigation/communication purposes. The first, and smaller of the
two, was erected just to the south of the old CH Receiver Blocki. It was owned
by Racal Survey Norway<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and operated as
part of a system called Deltafix, a photo from Mike Pennington is below:</span>
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advanced form of Loran and, over shorter distances, enabled the crews of
vessels involved in the North Sea Oilfields to fix their positions with great
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personnel at Saxa. Unfortunately people generate rubbish and, in the days
before the Council accepted responsibility for removing domestic waste from
service establishments, much of it was disposed of at the site of RAF Skaw
using 2 tipping points (use dependent upon wind direction and strength). It is
possible that these two places were in use during WWII but I have no record of
that. The first tipping point, to the south, was into an area called The
Mooasunds and looked like this:</span></span></span></span></div>
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from civilians and servicemen, was considerable and included numerous vehicles
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refurbished, there would be an interchange of information between service
employees and civilians. MOD would not allow used items to be given away, only
sold by strictly supervised auctions - difficult to organise in Unst - or physically
scrapped. It was not unknown at certain times for folk to be below the tipping
points to see what <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>scrapped goodies
would descend on them from above! Early in the 90's I think the Shetland Islands
Council agreed to collect domestic waste from RAF Saxa Vord and, initially,
this was taken to official landfill sites - although some people continued
dumping at Skaw it could no longer be considered<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"legal" to do so. There was a less
well known third tipping site, possibly constructed for the Admiralty in the 50's,
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discouraged nowadays, was the use of a structure built in 1940 as part of the
RAF Skaw Advance Chain Home radar site, for fire practice. This was illustrated
in the Saxa bog here: <a href="http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/fire-practice-at-inner-skaw-part-2.html">http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/fire-practice-at-inner-skaw-part-2.html</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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Floggie), had to be closed as unsafe. Large cracks had appeared and there was a
great danger of the cliff side collapsing into the water below:</span></span></span></span></div>
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Skaw by a route which avoided the cliffs altogether.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">At the end of the 20th century an unsuccessful attempt was
made to get money from the "Millennium Fund" to turn the old RAF Skaw
Receiver Block into a safe visitor attraction, in the hope of generating
tourist activity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those of you who
believe in the preservation of historic sites will be pleased to know that in
2012 Historic Environment Scotland designated RAF Skaw, both main and reserve
sites, a "scheduled monument" - the details of this decision may be
seen here: <a href="http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM13097">http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM13097</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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Part 1 of RAF Skaw - <b>Inception to Jan '41 </b>is here:<br />
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Gordon Carlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04360114502865961238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171230357168117236.post-23206318055017996052018-09-30T12:00:00.000+01:002018-09-30T20:07:39.309+01:00A History of RAF Skaw ( AMES 56) Part 7 - Remote Reserve AMES 56R<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The idea of back-up facilities for Chain Home Radar Stations
originated early on in WWII. By the middle of Aug '40, at the height of the
Battle of Britain and as a result of some success by the Luftwaffe, it was
decided that radar sites in the SE, including Ventnor, Pevensey, Rye and Dover,
needed better physical protection, better anti-aircraft protection, more
back-up equipment and better dispersal of resources. This led to a number of
measures which included hardened shelters, provision of mobile assets and the
construction of "reserve sites". The static reserve sites fell into 2
categories, Buried Reserves and Remote Reserves. As the name suggests, Buried
Reserves tended to be on or near the main site, with most of the equipment and
personnel underground for protection - only the towers and aerial arrays were
exposed. On the other hand, Remote Reserves were some distance from the main
sites, usually above ground, with some degree of protection and usually camouflaged.
The cost and complexity of building Buried Reserves meant that, for economic
reasons, most back-up sites <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>after Spring
1941, especially those in the west and north, were built as Remote Reserves.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Although the two Shetland Chain Home Sites were not among
the first to be built, the inclusion of Reserve Sites was agreed long before
the full Chain Home Radar sites were complete. The Advance Chain Radars in
Shetland were operational at the beginning of 1941 but the full Chain Home Radars
were not commissioned until April & May '42. Discussion about the siting of
their Reserves began as early as May '41. In this article I will be dealing
with RAF Skaw, the story of RAF Noss Hill has been published elsewhere (http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/raf-noss-hill-air-ministry-experimental.html).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Finding a suitable location for the RAF Skaw Remote Reserve
was not simple. Discovering a large enough piece of land with, all the right
characteristics<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and within a suitable
distance of the main site proved to be a problem and, in the end, compromises
were made. The Authorities were after a piece of land 500 to 2,000 yards from
the main CH equipment and with good access. It had to provide maximum detection
ranges on the 2 main Lines of Shoot - 100 degrees and 280 degrees. There needed
to be as little distortion the radio signals as possible. At the beginning of Jun
'41 it was decided that the best place available would be on the headland of
Outer Skaw to the north of Lamba Ness (Inner Skaw)- <strong><em>Left Click on pictures to enlarge,</em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The selected position could to be used for height-finding
but this facility would be restricted in the west where higher ground would
cause problems. In July a number of details for the reserve were officially
recorded. It would fall under the jurisdiction of HQ 71 Group, be under the
command of RAF Skaw, have the name Skaw Remote Reserve and be allocated the designation
"Air Ministry Experimental Station"(AMES) 56R, (RAF Skaw was AMES
56). The mean height was recorded as 63' and the exact position was noted using
the wartime National Grid System. The lines of shoot for the radar were
recorded as 010, 100, 190 and 280. The land at Outer Skaw was shown to belong
to the Garth Estates Ltd and the tenant was a T. Clark Esq of the Haa, Skaw.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">"Good access" was available by a track which ran
from near the RAF Skaw main domestic site to the "Haa". The track was
not built for heavy vehicles<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and the
surface deteriorated quickly when used by construction firms, especially in the
winter months. Having got as far as the "Haa" the route had to be
extended half a mile to the furthest point of the Reserve site (the Receiver
Building). Construction would have been undertaken by a couple of the firms
responsible for building the main CH Site on Lamba Ness - Riley & Neat
& WJ Watsons,. The main structures on the Reserve were 2 wooden towers , a
Receiver Hut, a Transmitter<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hut and a building
to house the Generators . Other elements<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>of the site included<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a Guard Post,
a Mess Hall, 2 x Chemical WC cubicles and areas for disposal of rubbish. It was
not the intention that the site be permanently manned by technicians and
operators. If needed, crews would come from the off-duty personnel at the main
site or from survivors of an attack. The only permanent manning was intended to
be an Army guard, probably from the local defence forces already allocated to
defend RAF Skaw.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Flash Earth image
below shows the approximate location<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of
the various parts of the Reserve - more details will follow shortly:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The Transmitter and Receiver Towers were both 120' tall and
made of wood. They have long since been dismantled but similar towers, from St
Lawrence on the Isle of Wight, can be seen in this photo from the Imperial War
Museum:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the base the legs of each Tower formed a
square, approximately 16' x 16'. What remains of the base of the Transmitter
Tower can be seen in this recent photo:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The Towers were demolished in 1944 and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a Tower was subsequently rebuilt as part of
the transmission system for the AMES713 LORAN Unit . This was where the old
Receiver Tower used to be so I believe that the feeder arrangements, in the
centre of the Tower base below, are different from those used on the earlier
Reserve site:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nothing remains of the
Transmitter Hut - the wooden structure was demolished and in 1944 it was subsequently
replaced by a Nissen Hut housing LORAN Equipment. However, it was protected by
a brick<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>blast wall, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which still remains:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Finding the site of the Receiver Hut is even more difficult,
unless you know where to look. Just north of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the base of the Reserve Receiver Tower, a few
bricks can be found embedded in the soil giving an indication of where the
operators and receiver technicians were expected to work:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The National Grid had not reached as far as Unst by the
start of the Second World War so military units needed to generate their own
power. To be independent of the main site, the Reserve site required<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to produce its own electricity and,
therefore, a separate Power House was constructed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The next picture shows the Guard Post, with the Power House
to the left. The headland, which can be seen in the distance, is Lamba Ness,
the location of the main RAF Skaw station.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The only other buildings on the Reserve itself visible today
were for the 2 x two-seater chemical <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WCs at the
eastern end of the headland. They were constructed so that windows and doors
faced inland to prevent lights shining out to sea and possibly attracting
enemy shipping or submarines. I'm sure that the closeness of the sea and the
direction of prevailing winds would have been considered when choosing
locations for these buildings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Some distance to the south-west there is a further reminder
of the period. A separate Mess Hall and incinerator <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were erected but would have seen little use. A
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>small brick and concrete structure
exists<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>just to the west of the Mess Hall.
It may have been for fuel supplies but it is possible that this was put up by
later inhabitants of the Haa as storage for the Essy Cart (Garbage Truck).
These structures were near the Haa but on the south side of the Burn of Skaw.
Personnel would only have used the Mess Hall if the Remote Reserve were to be
activated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Just to the west of the Mess Hall, in the foreground of the
next picture, lies the next object. Its purpose is unknown but, like the main
RAF Skaw Station, the Remote Reserve and the WWII<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Admiralty Experimental Station on Saxa Vord,
it was made using bricks from Edinburgh!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In the areas of the Transmitter, Receiver and the Power
House a number of ground-level ducts can be seen. They are of two types: The first
type, to provide access to GPO cables and wiring, can be seen in the next
picture (which has a distant view of the most northerly point in the UK, Out
Stack, in the top left: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The second type of duct was to provide cable access for the
RAF technicians. The example in the photo below came from near the base of the reserve
Receiver Tower and shows, once again, that some people cannot be trusted near
wet concrete - it would be interesting to discover whose initials were
inscribed more than 70 years ago! It is quite possible that this duct was made
later for the LORAN Transmitter Tower.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">There is very little in the operational rerecords of HQ 60
Group, 70 & 71 Wings and RAF Skaw about the Skaw Remote Reserve - not
really surprising since<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it appears never
to have<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>been used operationally. The Chain
Home construction programme was immense and sites received priority in line
with the perceived threat and, due to difficult locations, island sites tended
to suffer from difficulties in the supply chain. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few of the details I have been able to glean
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">April '43 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">"Buried
"Reserve at Skaw 95% complete - either "Buried" or
"Skaw" is a Staff Officer error I think!</span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">April ' 43 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Good
progress has been made with the aerial installation at the Skaw RR</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">January<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>44<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Remote Reserve Transmitter & Receiver
disconnected - ready for removal (HQ 70 <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Wg)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">February '44 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dismantling
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Apr '44<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>RR Transmitter Tower dismantled</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">May '44<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>RR - second Tower dismantling
complete</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Jul '44<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>7 Jul Work started on AMES713 (LORAN Site)
and erection of a 120' Tower (Transmitter) - completed
in early Sep 44</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">As there were no RAF personnel posted into the Reserve and,
because any army guards assigned to protect the area would not be allowed
access to the buildings & equipment, I have found no detailed anecdotes
relevant to the site. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Don Wright was posted in to RAF Skaw in March 1942, to work
in the Power House. He had previously been an Aero Engine Fitter on an airfield but had
experience of working with diesel engines. His wartime story would be worthy of
recounting at length elsewhere. He was believed to be the first WWII RAF "incomer"
to marry a local Unst girl. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He remained
at Skaw to the end of the war, arriving as an airman; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a number of promotions followed until he
became the Flight Sergeant in charge of the Power House. He remembers that he
and other members of the Power house crew had to go to the Remote Reserve
occasionally to start up, run and maintain the diesel generators, just to
ensure they were available in case of need.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I have been unable to find out details of the technical
equipment installed at the Reserve. However, as it would require to be manned
and operational quickly, it would seem sensible that, as much as possible,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it should be similar to the main site. This
would enable the operators and technicians to have the place "up &
running" expeditiously. There were a number of companies which produced
power plant for the Chain Home stations but I know for certain that the
generators used on the main site were Blackstone (primary power) and Lister
(stand-by). As the LIster Company took over Blackstone in 1937 and were
renowned for slightly smaller units, I think it highly probable that the Power
House would have had equipment like this installed (Metrovick = Metropolitan
Vickers):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">If the radar Transmitter and Receivers were the same as
those on the main site, they would have looked like those in the pictures
below, also reproduced from the SD 0458:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">One aspect of the Reserve was a puzzle at first. On the west
side of the Power House I noticed parallel lines of concrete and metal remnants:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">On closer Inspection similar remnants could be seen all
around the building, though the layout didn't seem to be completely symmetrical.
Later, more cement and metal was found around the locations of the Transmitter
and Receiver Huts . Looking at recent Flash Earth images patterns can be
distinguished. With the help of Mike Dean and Bob Jenner it became obvious that
I was seeing the perimeter of the camouflage netting.</span></div>
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3 views above are seen in perspective below:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The outline of the camouflage for the Remote Reserve
Transmitter site seen in the Flash Earth images above can be compared with an
early plan, drawn for the Air Ministry in Aug 41.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It's interesting to see that the road/track which had to be
constructed can be seen on the right of the plan above. Seventy years later it can
be detected visually on the ground, but the further <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>north of the of the Transmitter Hut you go,
the more difficult it is to trace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">So, that's the story of the RAF Skaw Remote Reserve (AMES
56R). It was started in Jun 42 and largely demolished by May 1944,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>apparently without any actual operational use.
Any research on the site is complicated by the fact that; less than 3 months
later, work began on another (even more classified),<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>unit - AMEs 713. The story of the LORAN
Navigational site has been told here: <a href="http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/air-ministry-experimental-station-ames.html">http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/air-ministry-experimental-station-ames.html</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"></span><br />
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<b><u><span style="color: #333333; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Previous articles on RAF Skaw</span></span></u></b><span style="color: #333333; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br /><span style="font-family: "calibri";">
<br />
Part 1 of RAF Skaw - </span></span><b><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Inception
to Jan '41 </span></span></b><span style="color: #333333; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">is here:<br />
</span><a href="http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-no56-part-1.html"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-no56-part-1.html</span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: "calibri";">
<br />
Part 2 of RAF Skaw - </span></span><b><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Advance
CH - From Jan 41 to May 42</span></span></b><span style="color: #333333; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">s
is here:<br />
</span><a href="http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-56-part-2.html"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-56-part-2.html</span></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: "calibri";">
<br />
Part 3 of RAF Skaw - </span></span><b><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">CH Ops</span></span></b><span style="color: #333333; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">
is here:<br />
</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-56-part-3-ch.html"><span style="color: #5588aa; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-56-part-3-ch.html</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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here: </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-no-56-part-4.html"><span style="color: #5588aa; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none;">http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-no-56-part-4.html</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #333333; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Part 5 of RAF Skaw <b>- Some of
the Other Buildings at RAF Skaw</b><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #333333; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-56-part-5.html"><span style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-56-part-5.html</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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Protection</strong></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><a href="http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-56-part-6.html">http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-56-part-6.html</a><br /><strong>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><strong><br />
<u>Scheduled Monument Status</u>: </strong></span><a href="http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM13097 "><span style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><strong>http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM13097 </strong></span></span></a><br />
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AVIA 7 - 312 Unst, The National Archive</div>
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Air 26 - 094 HQ 70 Wg ORB Appendices, The National
Archive</div>
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AIR 26 - 095 HQ 70 Wg ORB, The National Archive</div>
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Air 26 - 100 HQ 71 Wg ORB, The National Archive</div>
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SD 0458 - Photographic Record of Radar Stations
(Ground), Air Ministry, Aug 43 </div>
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Building Radar by Colin Dobinson, English
Heritage, Methuen, 2010</div>
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Mike Dean MBE</div>
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Bob Jenner </div>
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Leslie Smith</div>
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Lexie McMeechan</div>
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Rita Carle</div>
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Gordon Carlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04360114502865961238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171230357168117236.post-57993799856969533812018-08-31T12:00:00.000+01:002018-08-31T22:27:03.171+01:00A History of RAF Skaw-(AMES 56 ) Part 6 - Defence & Protection<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><u>Defence & Protection</u>. Apart from the RAF
personnel posted in to run the Chain Home Station, there were a number of
groups assigned to protect the site. They included <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Home Guard, Army Infantry, the Royal
Artillery who manned the 40mm Bofors Guns and, from 1942, an element of the RAF
Regiment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition to these
"defenders" all RAF servicemen posted to Skaw were required to
participate in ground defence training.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Local Defence
Force<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(LDV - later known as the Home
Guard).</i> Members of the Local Defence Force were usually too old, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>too young for the regular forces, or worked in
reserved occupations. It's easy to regard them as a bit of a joke following the
successful TV series, Dad's Army, but that would be unfair. Many of the older
ones had experience of warfare in the First Word War just over 20 years earlier
and they would be defending "home" territory. With their UK numbers
reaching one & half million, it was a force to be reckoned with. In
Shetland they were formed into the 1st Zetland Battalion,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Home Guard, which had more than 1,000 members
during the war. One of their tasks on Unst was to man lookout posts and to report
any landing of paratroops . </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Coastguard</i>. Three
Coastguard posts were also manned on Unst throughout the war, at Muness,
Hermaness and on the Keen of Hamar. They worked watches, often in appalling
weather and it's interesting to note they were armed. Six men were assigned to
each post and the main armament was rifles, though a Thompson Sub Machine Gun
was assigned to each of the posts at Hermaness and Muness</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Regular and/or the
Territorial Army</i>. Over the course of the war a number of companies from
different Regiments were tasked with the defence of Skaw and the Admiralty
radar on Saxa Vord. I know that elements of the Gordon Highlanders , Cameron
Highlanders, Black Watch and the Highland Light Infantry were involved at <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>different times.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Royal Artillery</i>
presence at Skaw varied throughout the operational life of the Station. In
1941, four Bofors Gun sites were surveyed but whether all were ever used at the
same time is another matter. The first 2 guns appear to have arrived in Jan 42
and I believe that they were deployed near the main Power House and just NW of
the Transmitter Block. Another gun probably arrived in Mar 42 and was
positioned near the Receiver Block. The Royal Artillery had a reputation for
being "self-contained",<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>organising their own food, laundry etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">After then the
situation is confused - a fourth gun may, or may not have arrived. Four Lewis
Guns supplemented the 3 or 4 Bofors Guns on site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lewis Guns, of much earlier US design, were
mass produced by the Birmingham Small Arms Factory <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Britain (also famous for BSA Motor Bikes).
They were much smaller calibre (.303 inch) than the 40mm Bofors and much
shorter range. In the middle of 1943 the plans stated that Skaw should have One
Troop<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Light Anti-Aircraft Regt Royal
Artillery, with 50 men, 4 Bofors Guns (which could be used in anti-aircraft or
ground defence roles), 4 Lewis Guns and 45 Rifles. It is quite likely that the
Royal Artillery were withdrawn in 1944 as the air threat to the radar reduced
and the need for artillery for the forthcoming invasion of France Increased.
From June 1944 a large increase in artillery around the south coast of England
took place to help defend the Home Counties against the threat from the V1
flying bombs. <span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
short film clip of a Bofors 40mm gun in 1940, from British Pathé, is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fca00UwCy0</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> </span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The photo below, from the Imperial War Museum, shows a 40mm Bofors
Gun and, below it, a photo of a Lewis Gun, also from the Imperial War Museum:</span><br />
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Buildings.</i> There seems to have been at least 6 billets<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and a number of other buildings assigned for
Army use. Three Army Billets lay just north of the road, which runs through the
camp and were on the main Domestic Site. These would probably have been
allocated to the Guard Force. Certainly for a significant part of the War
Shetland was considered to be at threat of invasion and radar sites were also
thought to be vulnerable to sneak "commando style " raids. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The other three billets (with associated ablutions) are
split between three of the sites surveyed for the Royal Artillery for their
Bofors<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Guns<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
presume that these were occupied by the gunners. Each of these 3 gun positions
appears to have been a "self-contained unit".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, Ron Simkins , an RAF radar mechanic
at Skaw later on in the war,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>remembers
the most easterly of these billets being occupied by the Highland Light
Infantry<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- perhaps the Royal Artillery
had left and the accommodation had been reassigned - there were many significant
deployments around D Day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The constructions by each of the gun sites were all similar
and I have marked the positions<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of the
billets as A1, A2 & A3 on the following image:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Because they are so alike I will describe the area around A2
as that site seems reasonably well preserved. This is a short distance to the south-west
of the Main Power House,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as can be seen
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final element of the artillery site - the ablutions, were described in the Dept
of Works plans as "latrines and drying room". Note how close to the
cliff edge it was built:</span></div>
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actual Bofors Gun hard standing for the site marked A3 on the Flash Earth image
a little earlier, was just north-east of the Receiver Block but the actual
accommodation site can be seen in this next picture, taken soon after the war
and kindly sent to me by the late Norrie Moir:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The RAF Regiment. </i>In
Jan 42, King George VI signed a Royal Warrant which brought the RAF Regiment
into being. The primary aim of the new force was the defence of RAF
Installations against ground and air threats . It obviously took some time to train
sufficient personnel and the Skaw records I have seen are short of details but,
I know that some members of the Regiment were on the Station in 1943 & 44.
I don't as yet know how many of them there were but my late father-in-law, 1554227 LAC
Hughie McMeechan, was among their number at Skaw: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">2740 Squadron, RAF Regiment was used in defence of Sumburgh
and 2751 Squadron was at Sullom Voe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm
not sure which Regiment provided the personnel on Unst, but it was possibly
2737 Sqn. This Sqn was deployed to Norway later (so was my<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>father-in-law). Although the RAFRegiment used
a variety of anti-aircraft weapons during WWII, including 40mm Bofors Guns and
20mm Oerlikon Cannon, I think it more likely that they used .303 Lewis,
Vickers, Bren or Browning Machine Guns at Skaw, all types being recorded on the
Station. In Aug 42, the operational records note that work started "on the
4 gun pits for the motley stalk mountings". In fact, the firm of Motley
made a number of different mountings for machine guns, including the Bren gun
& the Vickers .303. In this case I believe the text refers to the Motley <u>Stork</u>
Mounting, which itself comes in a number of varieties. I have identified three
suitable "gun pits" within the Station boundaries and marked them with orange crosses on
the Flash Earth Image below, I suspect that they were manned by Regiment
Gunners or the Royal Artillery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
may well have been a fourth position but bricks are a rarity on Unst and
someone may well have found a different use for them in the 70+ intervening
years!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">There is another type of "gun pit"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on the station, also probably for .303 use.
These are flush with the ground and offered a certain degree of protection
should the site come under attack:</span></div>
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Guards/Sentries. </i>Some buildings were constructed for the use of sentries
and/or the guard force. The main CH buildings would have had controlled entry
in an attempt to prevent intruders or inquisitive civilian workmen gaining
access. However, there were 5 stand-alone buildings that I know of, intended
for use by guards. For simplicity ! will describe them starting from the
western end of the Station.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Just to the south of the main entrance to the camp was a
wooden Guard Hut. Nothing remains of the hut but its approximate position is
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">To the SE of the Power House lies another " Guard
Hut", but this time it was a more like a "Guard Post," though
small and substantial. It is largely as it was over 70 years ago:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The next "guard hut" is close to the turn-off to
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a shelter by sheep for many years. The rear part of the building, without
windows, was possibly used as an Armoury:</span></div>
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slightly different sizes. Just to the east of the Standby Power House lies the ruin
of the next one. In plan it measure about 16'3" x 18'3" and it had a
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House, measuring 20'4" x 18'5". It also has a high pitched roof and a
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Transmitter Block. </i>There are the remains of a number of structures in the
area to the north of the Transmitter Block. The largest one, circled in yellow
on the Flash Earth Image below, was built during the lifetime of RAF Skaw (same
makes of bricks employed - ETNA & EDINBURGH<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-no-proof: yes;">)</span><br />
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This site does not appear on an Air Ministry Works
Department plan, dated 1945, nor is it labelled on a map produced by Ron Simkin
after the war. After a long time puzzling I remembered two rectangular
buildings of similar proportions at RAF Noss Hill, Shetlands other Chain Home
station. A Noss Hill plan names them as "Q Buildings", ie decoy
buildings and, therefore, I presume this one at RAF Skaw<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to have been built to fulfil the same
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Camouflage and
Barriers</i>. As mentioned elsewhere, extensive use was made of camouflage
netting, particularly around the Transmitter Block, Receiver Block and Stand/by
Power House. An example from the SD0458 can be seen below (from a more wooded
part of the UK):</div>
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A photo from just after the war, showing the location of the
Stand By Power House, reveals the where the camouflage surrounding the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>block used to be :</div>
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just limited to buildings. Prominent, irregular patterns were often painted on
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landing points; for example, a substantial barrier was established across the
beach at the Sands of Inner Skaw with the possible<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>laying of mines on the seaward side. Barriers
were also put up across the peninsula of Lambaness from the north to south,
allowing defence in depth - they permitted defences to retreat into prepared
positions. The picture below is part of 2 photos, given to my late
mother-in-law by Leslie Smith. The dark zig-zag line from the bottom left to
the top right is one such barrier and what looks like a dotted line across the
bottom probably consists of anti tank obstacles. The 2 dark circular areas are
bomb craters to the SW of the Transmitter Block, caused when a JU88 attacked Skaw
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Decontamination</i>. Many
forget that during WWII <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>servicemen and
civilians alike were issued with gas masks and haversacks in which to carry
them - they were expected to have them close to hand at all times. Some of the
lessons of the 1914 - 18 "Great War" had been studied, including the
effects of chlorine & mustard gas,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>nearly all military units of any size in WWII had<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>decontamination chambers. RAF Skaw was no
exception. A sleeping shelter which stands near where the camp gates were at
the western end of the Station was converted into a Decontamination Chamber. It
seems that it has since been used by local sheep for many years:</div>
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(ARS).</i> A variety or shelters were erected. Personnel who worked in
protected environments like the Transmitter and Receiver Blocks were reasonably
safe; whereas, those in wooden or nissen huts at the time of an attack were
particularly vulnerable. Three types of ARS are shown below;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the first picture is of the type provided for
the civilian Palmer and Cruickshank families - the material for the roof has
obviously been "salvaged":</div>
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</span>The next shelter illustrated is from near the area of the
smaller domestic site, about 200 yards SE of the Main Power House - some of the
roof remains in the vicinity:</div>
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relatively intact. There is another, similar one, with both of them being on
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At the beginning, when the construction of RAF Skaw began,
the threat of attack by German forces was considered to be great. Barriers,
anti-tank traps and the use of mines helped deter sea-borne landings and
continual surveillance from the Coastguard, Naval vessels and Coastal Command
aircraft would, hopefully, provide early warning. In 1940 the use of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Fallschirmjäger </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">(Paratroops) was extremely effective in the
German invasions of France, the Netherlands and Norway. The use of glider-borne
infantry was also successfully demonstrated in the German capture of </span>the
<span style="color: #057abd;">Belgian</span> fort
of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Emael" title="Eben Emael"><span style="color: #057abd;">Eben
Emael</span></a> in May 1940. It's no wonder that troops like the Home Guard
throughout the UK were trained to meet such threats. Many fields in Unst, which
were relatively flat, had rows of stakes erected to hinder landings and special
Home Guard Observation Posts were manned. Two of the Unst fields where stakes
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><u><strong>Previous articles on RAF Skaw</strong></u></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Part 1 of RAF Skaw - <strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Inception to Jan '41 </span></strong>is here:<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-no56-part-1.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-no56-part-1.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Part 2 of RAF Skaw - <strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Advance CH - From Jan 41 to May 42</span></strong>s is here:<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-56-part-2.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-56-part-2.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> Part 3 of RAF Skaw - <strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CH Ops</span></strong> is here:<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-56-part-3-ch.html"><span style="color: #5588aa;">http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-56-part-3-ch.html</span></a></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><strong><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-56-part-5.html">http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-56-part-5.html</a><br /><br /><strong><u>Scheduled Monument Status</u>: </strong><a href="http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM13097 "><span style="color: #5588aa;"><strong>http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM13097 </strong></span></a></span></span></strong></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">(Ground) - Air Ministry Aug 43</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;">Imperial War Museum</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The Advance Chain Home element of RAF Skaw was the primary
operational unit until the main Chain Home equipment was commissioned in May
1942. Indeed questions were asked by higher authorities about the reasons the
full stations at Skaw and Noss Hill had taken so long to complete. Similar
stations on mainland UK took about 12 months less to finish. Bowler- hatted
civil servants and expert scientists didn't always appreciate the problems of
sea crossings, weather and the lack of infrastructure at some remote locations,
particularly when there was a war going on!. The Transmitter and Receiver
blocks were described in an earlier section (Part 4) so it's time to look at
some of the other structures. Guard posts, gun positions<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and other defensive measures will be
considered in yet another section.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Early in 1940 the first radar unit to arrive on Unst, No 3
Transportable Radio Unit (3TRU) , was assembled on the Keen of Hamar:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-first-radar-on-unst.html<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
that Unit was suddenly closed in August of that year some of its equipment was
left behind. Explosive demolition charges, designed to destroy the sensitive,
highly classified radar components, were passed on to the Admiralty Experimental
Station on Saxa Vord, which lacked the items. 3TRU also arrived on the island with
about 8 wooden huts and I believe these were also left on behind and used as part
of the accommodation when the construction of RAF Skaw began. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><u>Power</u>. Unst was not on the National Grid so the RAF
had to supply its own power. Arrangements for generating electricity for the
Advance Chain Home equipment and for the Skaw Remote Reserve are outlined in
Parts 2 & 7. The Main Power House (MPH) was located just to the north of
the road running through the centre of the camp and about half way between the
camp gate and the Receiver Block. It was a large, rectangular building with a
pitched roof. Overhead pictures of the area, including one from 1946,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>give no indication that it was camouflaged.
The building is now in a very sorry state with no roof and with the interior deeply
covered in sheep manure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this, more
recent photo, a dome on Saxa cam be seen to the left of the Power House with a later
building behind the old structure:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The main generating plant in the MPH consisted of 2
Blackstone EPV4 sets. In 1936 Blackstone & co were taken over by the Lister
co, which also manufactured power plant, but the equipment in use at the main
Skaw site was of a type originally produced by Blackstone. Both sets were used
to allow maintenance and to equalise wear. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The serial number on the equipment were
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Some idea of the logistical problem can be envisaged when
the fuel consumption is examined. On average about 2<span class="frac"><sup><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">1</span></sup>⁄</span><span class="frac"><sub><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%;">2 </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></sub></span>barrels of diesel were used in a
day and, if we assume it came in 40 gallon drums, then nearly 3 tons of diesel
was required each week. Getting the fuel to Shetland, then to Baltasound and
then to the camp would have been hard work! Someone, knowing the problems of
the remote location, decided that the station should maintain a minimum stock
of 5,000 gallons of fuel oil! When operational the MPH provided power for the
radar and general lighting. Heat for the billets was another matter - large
supplies of coal were also needed to feed the stoves in each hut.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">During 1942 a cable was laid from the Power House to the top
of Saxa Vord, a distance of over 2 miles. It was needed to provide more power
for the naval radar equipment (Type 273, a - centimetric radar) being installed
at the Admiralty Experimental Station No. 4. The new equipment on the naval
unit went "live" on 2 Feb 1943.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">As the Main Power House was a fairly "soft" target
and, because there was no local civilian source of power, the RAF provided a
Standby Power House - sometimes called a Standby Set (House). This was about
600 yards east of the Main Power House and closer to the Transmitter Towers.
However, the standby equipment was in a bunker, protected by mounded earth:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In this next Flash Earth image at closer range, not only can
the physical protection for the Standby Power House be clearly seen, but the
perimeter of the old camouflage netting can also be detected, particularly to the SW
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">There were 2 Blackstone sets, just like the Main Power
House, they were numbered EPV 45307 (No. 1) and EPV 45402 (N0. II). All the
WWII equipment was removed long ago and, in more recent years it has been used
as a place for maintaining<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>local boats.
I believe it has also been a site used in the past for the construction of the
galley for the Norwick Up Helly Aa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><u>Identification Friend or Foe (IFF)</u>. Early on in the
history of British Radar the risk of "friendly on friendly" action
was recognised. Basic radar could obtain a response from an aircraft but the
operator might need help in deciding whether or not the aircraft was a threat.
On 6 Sep 39, just 3 days after Britain entered the war, an RAF pilot died in a
friendly fire incident. Attempts were made to improve the air defence system
and, by the beginning of the Battle of Britain, a rudimentary set of equipment,
nicknamed "Pip Squeak", was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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the fighter to transmit a signal at specified intervals, it allowed a fighter
or a group of fighters, to be tracked by the radar stations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Further developments led to IFF, whereby the radar operators
used ground equipment to transmit a signal to "interrogate" aircraft.
Friendly aircraft were equipped to react to this interrogation and to send a separate
signal back to the ground using an item of equipment known as a
"transponder". IFF developed fairly rapidly but I have seen no record
of the type installed in the early days of Skaw. The first operators for the
Advance Chain Home <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ACH equipment, who
arrived in Nov '40, were supplied with a 105' masts/s, but whether for radio or
IFF I don't know. It is quite possible that the ACH IFF at Skaw was similar to
the one on an operations hut at the Chain Home Low site at Clett, Whalsay -
just 30 miles away. This is what that aerial looked like in1942, the smaller
aerial, closer to the photographer, was for the IFF.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">It is known that the Skaw main Chain Home station had an
operational version of Mark III<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>IFF in
1943. The next picture is an extract of a photo, taken in 1944, by a serviceman
called Derek Lucas. It shows the Skaw Transmitter towers on the left, the
Receiver towers on the right and, just visible, the 105' IFF mast in the
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The next picture, from the SD4058, shows what the
installation looked like (albeit in a wooded area!): </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The mast was held upright by cables (guys), attached to anchor
points. The photo below shows one of the anchor point<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(marked by an arrow) and the IFF building -
known as a cubicle or Kiosk - is on the right (with a sheep on guard in the
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ceiling the cubicle was 7' high and the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ACH transmitter and generator blast
walls can be seen in the next picture. The base of the 105' mast was mounted on
a rectangular concrete foundation, just to the north of the building, and is
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mentioned in Skaw Part One, the area of RAF Skaw had to be requisitioned from
John & Helen Priest, whose house (called Ivy Cottage), <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lay at the western edge of the land used by
the RAF. The Priests had to move out and, as far I know,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ivy Cottage remained unoccupied throughout
the war. The location of Ivy Cottage, just east of the main Domestic Site, was
shown in Skaw Part One. Two other families remained living within the camp
boundaries, at least for some of the Stations life. Two "quarters"
were allocated to the Cruikshank and Palmer families. These houses were, in
fact, converted nissen huts similar to those occupied by some of the RAF. Each of
the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>huts used as "Quarters"
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have mentioned Ron Simkin earlier. He was a radar mechanic and served at Skaw
from April '43 to April '44. He returned to Unst after the war and drew an
excellent map of the Station and a more detailed plan of the domestic site. In
fact, his detailed map of the domestic site is so accurate one might think that
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Moving eastward from the domestic site<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there is what appears to be a quarry on the
south side of the road. In it is the foundation of a rectangular building which
is described as a " Maintenance Workshop" <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on the Simkin map. I don't know what was being
maintained but it is possible that the site had a previous use. By June 44 many
Bofors guns were moved to the south of England for the D Day landings and to
provide some defence against the V1 flying bombs. I haven't been able to
discover when the Skaw Royal Artillery weapons were removed - the last
reference I have seen to them was in May 43. However, an early Air Ministry
Works Dept (AMWD) plan refers to an Anti-Aircraft Headquarters and Garage which
seem to have been in this vicinity. The AMWD plan also states that the AA
Garage was "blown away in a storm". Whilst I have no firm evidence I
think it is likely that the AA Headquarters became a Maintenance Workshop later
on in the war. A recent photo of the "quarry", with foundations, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is shown below:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Between the start of construction and final closure, the
site of RAF Skaw was occupied for more than five & a half years. The
quantities of cement and bricks used were vast and the use of pre-fabricated
buildings (wooden huts and nissen huts) was widespread. The requirements
changed as the number of people on the Station fluctuated and as the war
progressed, with some structures used for different functions during their lifetime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the war most of the material used for
the huts "disappeared" and some of the bricks were used for other
purposes. However, many of the wartime elements of the radar station are still
standing and waterproof!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><u><strong>Previous articles on RAF Skaw</strong></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Part 1 of RAF Skaw - <strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Inception to Jan '41 </span></strong>is
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-no56-part-1.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-no56-part-1.html</span></a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Part 2 of RAF Skaw - <strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Advance CH - From Jan 41 to May
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> Part 3 of RAF Skaw - <strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">CH Ops</span></strong> is here:<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Part 4 of RAF Skaw - <strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Transmitters & Receivers </span></strong>is
here: <span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><a href="http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-no-56-part-4.html">http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-history-of-raf-skaw-ames-no-56-part-4.html</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">The late Lexie McMeechan </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">The Late Ron Simkin </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">The late Leslie Smith</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Rita Carle</span></span></div>
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Photographic Record of Radars stations<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Ground) - Air Ministry Aug 43</span></span></div>
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Gordon Carlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04360114502865961238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171230357168117236.post-73110526113346843712018-06-30T12:00:00.000+01:002018-07-24T21:19:38.736+01:00A History of RAF Skaw (AMES No. 56) - Part 4 - CH Transmitters and Receivers<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In this section I will discuss the layout of the Skaw Chain
Home (CH) Transmitters and Receivers, whilst explaining some of the equipment
used. It was more than two and a half years into the war before the full Chain
Home Station became operational - 17 May 1942. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, there appear to be few photos
of the site from this era, the Official Secrets Act obviously had a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>major effect on cameramen of the time.
However, I will do the best I can with the few contemporary pictures which are
available and supplement them with more modern efforts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">First, it is necessary to digress a little. As a generalisation
there were two main types of Chain Home Sites known as "East Coast"
and "West Coast". The main visible difference was with the
Transmitter Towers. East Coast stations had broad based Transmitter Towers with
4 legs; whereas West Coast ones were simpler, with guyed masts, as can be seen
in the following images from the SD 0458, with the East Coast towers on the
left.<strong><em> (Left click on images to enlarge):</em></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The 240' wooden Receiver Towers looked similar on both East
& West Coast designs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were
other significant differences between the Operations Blocks and the equipment
they contained. As a rule of thumb the earlier stations were built to the East
Coast Pattern and the later ones to the West Coast pattern. The two Shetland CH
stations, to be different, had elements of both patterns.</span></div>
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taken in 1944 by a chap called Derek Lucas, who was posted to the adjacent AMES
713 LORAN unit in August 1944. Mike Dean kindly sent me a copy of his photo,
which is reproduced below:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The nearby Domestic site, the Power House and the Towers
stand out quite well. The Transmitter and Receiver blocks are heavily
camouflaged. The towers which can be seen are: the two Transmitter Towers on
the left, the two Receiver towers on the right and a much smaller
Identification Friend or Foe Tower in the middle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><u>Transmitter Site</u>. The following Flash Earth Image
shows the location of the Transmitter Block and Towers. Clearly visible is the
perimeter of the WWII camouflage curtain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Extensive use was made of camouflage around all operational
buildings and an example of it can be seen in the next illustration, which
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Each of the Transmitter Towers
was about 360 ' tall and the two at Skaw were about 350' apart. The four legs
of each tower formed a square with sides of 64' at the base. The next picture
shows the Transmitter Block at the left and the remains of the tower bases to
the right.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Looking at the Towers from afar one could easily get the
impression that they were radiating radio waves into the distance. In fact,
they were there just to support, and to provide access to, the equipment which
was the active part of the system. Suspended between the two towers was a cable
and, suspended from that cable, was a variety of antenna (dipoles) designed to
produce the required transmission pattern. A series of "exciters" was
used to amplify and refine the frequency transmitted. This type of arrangement
was known as a "curtain" and is illustrated well in this extract from the SD0410(1) , which has come via Mike Dean:</span></span></span><br />
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Museum and shows Transmitter towers at RAF Bawdsey. Looking at it closely, it
is just possible to see part of the transmitting curtain array on the right of
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is surrounded by a blast wall and mounded earth for protection, as can be seen
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">This Transmitter Block appears to be built to a "East
Coast" design with "East Coast" pattern Towers. Though it is
noticeable that some of the equipment inside would normally be associated with
a "West Coast" site. Not having a non-copyright plan of this type of
Block, with the help of Pete Brindley, I measured it and drew the sketch below:</span></span></span></div>
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of structure and have suitable illumination (+spare torches), keep out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are usually unlit, have deep uncovered
cable ducts in the floors and there is plenty of old, rusty, jagged metal
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The largest room, at the western end of the Block, now
contains little except the frame of a mains switchboard, which can be seen in
the next 2 photos. Once again this type of Switchboard is normally linked with
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">RAF Skaw, like other Shetland Radar sites, had no WAAF service
personnel and, unlike RAF Watsness, AMES 55a, I have found no evidence to
suggest that the NAAFI employed females on site. Obviously this made life a
little simpler when it came to the provision of WCs in planning some of the
Skaw buildings. The Transmitter Block had a 2 seater as seen below:</span></span></span></div>
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of the Towers. The quality is poor as they are reproductions from photocopies.
The originals were taken by David St George, who was a Radar Mechanic at the
Station in 1944 & 45. The first is of someone on the cantilever right at
the top of the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>steel mast and the second
is a view of one of the masts from the bottom:</span></span></span></div>
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Coast Receiver Towers were similar. A closer overhead view shows the location
of the Skaw Towers, either side of the Block and about 300' apart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike the Transmitter Towers there was no
complex curtain of metal between them and they were able to
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Skaw, assembled by the firm of Riley & Neat. I don't have any reasonable
pictures of the Skaw<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Towers but the
image from the SD 0458 below shows 4 of them, built to the same pattern as
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of the four legs formed a square with sides of about 43' 6". Each leg was
10"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>x 10" and, despite the
fact that the masts were dismantled in 1947, some wood remains in the steel
mountings for the legs:</span></span></span></div>
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was constructed to carry the feeders, which conveyed the received signal into
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</span>All blocks/bunkers of this period had more than one
entrance/exit to facilitate evacuation should there be damage from enemy
action. The Skaw<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Transmitter &
Receiver blocks were not exceptions but, since the end of the war, both have
had one of their entrances sealed. In the case of the Receiver building it is
the entrance on the western side, which can be seen in the photo above, that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has been closed. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: red;">Access to
the block is dangerous so do not attempt to enter unless you have a guide and
adequate illumination. The next 2 photos show the eastern entrance and the
unlit cable duct, which lies just a few feet inside the doorway. The duct is
deep, with plenty of jagged metal and dirty water - the Receiver Block is not a
place for the ill-prepared & unwary!</span></i></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Once again I have been unable to find a copy of a non-copyright
plan of the building so, with the help of Pete Brindley, the following sketch
map of the Receiver Block was produced:-</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Two things are immediately apparent from the plan. Firstly;
it is a much larger building than the Skaw Transmitter Block as it also housed
the CH operations personnel, Secondly; the layout of the building, unlike the
Transmitter Block, is to a "West Coast" design. At some stage in the
past practically all the equipment was removed so is difficult to guess what
was installed. In sequence. from the south end of the building. the following
pictures will attempt to show the interior of the block:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">In the SW corner was a room which used to house the
Ventilation Plant:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Opposite this room, in the SE corner, lies an area known as
the Distribution Centre. In recent years it has been used to store items for
some local event. This area has a deep duct which needs to be avoided:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">I'm not sure what used to ne in this area but it seems
possible that it was the location of a Receiver Switchboard, similar to the one
shown below:-</span></span></span></div>
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next area appears to be a large chamber just inside the eastern entrance. I
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The central duct would have been covered over by wooden
floorboards. I think that the place where the photo was taken from would have
been a separate room housing a transformer and the area on the other side of
the duct would have been the site of a radar receiver. From this area there is central
corridor which runs over the main duct. The duct runs the length of the
building and, at one time, carried the feeder links in from the Receiver Tower.
In some areas the duct was covered by a concrete floor, in others by removable
wooden floorboards which provided access to the equipment below.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">During WWII the room would have looked like the one
illustrated in the SD 0458 though Skaw actually had an RF7 Receiver in place of
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more room in the Receiver Block. It's at the north end of the building and it
is a long, relatively narrow space called the GPO Room & it housed much of
the communications equipment:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">SD 0410(1) - Supervisors Manual</span></span></span></span><br />
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Photographic Record of Radars Stations<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Ground) - Air Ministry Aug 43</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Mike Dean MBE</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Initial check flights for, using a Blenheim aircraft, occurred
on 21 Apr 42 and the full CH site at RAF Skaw was finally commissioned on 17
May 42. This was a month after the other Shetland CH station at RAF Noss Hill
near Sumburgh, nearly 70 miles <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to the south.
Because of the logistical problems and harsher weather conditions both sites
had taken much longer to complete than similar radar installations further
south. Just because commissioning had occurred it didn't mean that all work was
complete, there was plenty more to be done and the calibration of the radar
needed to continue. There were still buildings and smaller aerials to be
erected and a number of RAF technical working parties would have to be deployed
to Unst from places like RAF Kidbrooke, in the London area. Initially the ACH
equipment and buildings were retained (and maintained), in case there should be
faults with, or damage to, the new installation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">When the first batch of servicemen arrived at Baltasound in
Nov 40 there were just over 60 RAF personnel to get the ACH working <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and to operate it. Those who were there in May
42 would have transferred<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to the full CH
but, by the time it was commissioned, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the RAF strength would probably have increased
to over 100, not including working parties on temporary attachments . It was
recorded that the new CH equipment was achieving<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a considerably better performance than the
ACH kit. Although check flights had occurred in April to provide assurance that
to radar could function well enough to be declared operational, calibration of
various aspects of the kit , such as height-finding capabilities, would
continue for a few months. Calibration would also be needed every time there
were significant changes to the equipment and, as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>far as I'm aware, all formal checks at Skaw
were performed using Blenheim aircraft.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">May 42.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first two weeks of operations with
the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>new radar were carried out in dull,
changeable weather, with a mixture of rain, sunshine and occasional strong
winds. With<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the time of the year
"double summertime" was in force and, because<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of the northerly<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>latitude, official blackout conditions
existed only between midnight and 0300hrs. With the increased range provided by
the new equipment, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a number of hostile
aircraft were plotted but the was no significant increase in the number <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of tracks reported from previous months. The
only German aircraft actually seen was identified by the anti-aircraft crews as
a Ju88. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It approached the Station from
the NE at about 500' but then dropped almost to sea level before making off in
an easterly direction. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the 21st May
the Station projector was transported to the Haroldswick Hall where, for the
first time on Unst, there was a public performance of a "talking
picture". The evidence available suggests that those who saw the film were
not particularly impressed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">June 42</i>. It was
noted that the new equipment was performing well and the following detection
ranges were recorded:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>185 miles to the
SE, 150 miles to the E,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>151 miles to the
NE, 70 miles to the W and 138 mile to the SW. The shorter range to the west may
well be explained by the mass of Saxa Vord lying in that direction! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A hostile in the area, although being plotted
by the Naval radar on Saxa Vord, was shot down on 8 Jun By a Beaufighter from 248
Squadron, based at Sumburgh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The aircrew
identified the German aircraft as a Ha140<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(a Blohm & Voss seaplane) and that is how it was entered in the
official records of the time. In fact, only 3 prototypes of the Ha140
twin-engined seaplane were ever built and, after the war when Luftwaffe records
became available,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it was re-identified as a
Blohm & Voss Bv138, a three-engined , maritime reconnaissance seaplane,
flow n by Lt E. Stieper Nevertheless, the incident would have been a morale
boost to many servicemen in Shetland .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">On another occasion in June the calibration aircraft was 15
miles from Skaw when the crew had a lucky escape, a German Me110 was observed
within about 100 yards of the Blenheim. For some reason the crew of the Messerschmitt,
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with 2 x 20mm cannon, 4 machine guns and
a speed advantage of around 80mph, did not attack and soon made off!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Practice in Wireless Telegraphy (usually abbreviate to W/T)
was carried out with the Filter Room in Lerwick <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and the quality of the communications and the
speed at which plots were passed were both recorded as good. Field<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>defence tactics were taught to personnel
during their time off and a flight over the Station by the calibration aircraft
was a welcome distraction, whilst providing a check of the effectiveness of the
camouflage measures in place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">July 42. </i>During
the month calibration of the new CH equipment was almost completed and, from a
technical point of view, there were few problems. The radar continued the give
a satisfactory performance and the following ranges were noted in the records: 150
miles to the SE, 150 miles to the S,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>65
miles to the NW and a regular German reconnaissance flight,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which had been christened FOTO FREDDIE, was
plotted 182 miles to the NE (almost as far as the Norwegian coast).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Overall, enemy activity was slight and the
nearest approach to the Station was on the 26th when a Hostile aircraft <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>approached to 13 miles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The W/T transmitter was moved from the Transmitter Hut to
the Transmitter Block. The aerial mast had been erected by the GPO from
Lerwick. The masts supported an inverted "L shaped<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>aerial" which was cut to match the
plotting frequency of 2150 kcs and the system seemed to work satisfactorily. It
was also recorded that a site for the Interrogator masts had been chosen and
that they were under construction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Most personnel had completed their basic ground defence
training by the end of the month and a stand-to exercise was held. Several
senior RAF & Army officers visited Skaw to discuss defence plans in close
conjunction with the military units on the site. The weather included 50 mph
gales, thunder and lightning,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>temperatures from near freezing to almost sub-tropical - it was unusually<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>varied, even for a Shetland summer. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just before the end of the month, on the 29th,
a Norwegian drifter put into Baltasound (presumably carrying refugees, as
discussed elsewhere on the blog).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aug 42. </i>The
Calibration of the site was completed on 10 Aug but it had been found
impossible to obtain height calibration on the northerly "line of
shoot". Strong recommendations were to made HQ 60 Group that the aerial
system should be altered to provide N and S "lines of shoot" in
addition to the E and W.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">There was much more air activity in August, with good
plotting practice achieved on the regular German reconnaissance flights. It was
noted that it was now possible to get friendly fighter into the area more
quickly than previously and each watch was eager to achieve the first
"kill".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the 21st<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a Heinkel, flying at very low-level, managed
to escape the defences intact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although
the aircraft came well within range of the ack ack<span style="font-family: "calibri";">, it was so low that it was impossible
for the guns to be deflected<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at an angle
low enough to engage the enemy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Early in
the morning on the 23rd an interception was achieved with the fighter crew calling
Tally Ho<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(visual)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on the enemy. The fighter managed to get two
bursts of gunfire onto the Hostile, which was last seen losing height with
smoke pouring from it. The Hostile was claimed as a "probable".</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The weather was poor, with wind and rain culminating in
70mph gales on the 15th. Repair crews were busy and the disposal squads were
active removing mines which had come ashore and chasing barrage balloons which
had come adrift. Nevertheless, ground defence training continued in August and
a start was made on 4 gun pits for "Motley Stalk Mountings". (I think
Motley Stork Mountings was actually meant - various types <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of gun mounting, normally for .303 Machine
Guns). The picture of a Motley Stork Mounting below was tor twin Vickers .303
anti aircraft guns being used by Australian troops:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sep 42</i>. Air
activity was light, with most flights being reconnaissance aircraft an coastal
missions. On the 25th one Hostile flew fairly low over the Station but it was
dark and cloudy so the ack ack were unable to see it. The hostile continued on
its way, without causing an incident. A calibration aircraft from 71 Wing
carried out several height checks during the month and the results were good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A Station<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Welfare
committee had been formed and it met to plan weekly entertainments programmes
in advance. What was described as "a splendid concert", featuring
Station personnel, took place on 6 Sep. Three days later, on the 9th, the Air
Officer Commanding and a small group of staff, made a visit to the
Station.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The weather for the month
started poorly, improved for most of the month but ended with south-easterly
gale and torrential rain. A Station Commanders conference was held at
Headquarters 71 Wing , RAF Milltimber, Aberdeen, on the 29 Sep. Apart from HQ
Staff Officers there were 15 officers from various CH & CHL radar units controlled
by the Wing. I don't have details of the discussions but it is recorded that
Flying Officer HBP Ellis attended from RAF Skaw.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nov 42</i>. November
was a very interesting month from an operational viewpoint. A number of Hostile
aircraft were intercepted and, although no "kills"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were claimed, the Luftwaffe would have
realised that the defence forces were effective. In summary, the following
claims were made during October:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">7 Oct <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>H204<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Damaged - the Hostile "played hide& amp; seek" in the clouds for 30 minutes. A check with the Filter Room in Lerwick afterwards confirmed the Skaw track plotting and ranges had been extremely accurate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">7 Oct<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> H297 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Damaged</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">13 Oct<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> H294<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Probable</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">17 Oct <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>H299 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Probable and severely damaged - the station
was congratulated by an Air Vice Marshal from Fighter Command.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">With gales reaching 90 mph very little damage occurred to
the equipment, although some insulators needed replacement. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ground Defence training was a priority and it
continued but practise was difficult in the gale conditions!</span></span></div>
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42</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">. Flying was restricted by the poor weather and
operations were rather monotonous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, this allowed more time to be devoted to checking the second CH
Receiver, which was commissioned on 19 Nov. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Initially there were some phasing problems
between the two Receivers but the performance proved satisfactorily. Two
receivers were required in case of unserviceability and to provide down time
for maintenance. The second Receiver<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had
an operational Mark III Console attached, whilst the unit were waiting for the
Console for the first Receiver to arrive.</span></div>
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Nov, the meteorologist recorded a speed of 120mph. At one stage the Interrogator
tower lifted and began to list dangerously. The contractors were recalled on the
21st to make the tower safe. There were regular defence lectures and training
practise. It was recorded that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the "Swift
Training Rifle " was effective in making some of this training popular.
It was a training aid, more popular in the RAF than in
the Army. It was a device used for gaining experience in how to hold a weapon
and how to use rifle sights - no cartridge s were used. The following picture
has been taken from a Lee Enfield Training Manual which has been displayed on
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weather continued into December, once again reducing the amount of air traffic,
both Friendly and Hostile. However 3 air raid warnings were issued, though there is no record of any bombs being dropped or of any enemy damage to the
Station. It was noticed that the second Receiver, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>commissioned in November, was not giving
heights as accurately as the first Receiver. Lack of air activity made it difficult
to investigate if the discrepancies were caused by technical problems or by
operator error - investigation would<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>continue. The Mark III Console for the first Receiver arrived and was
commissioned on 15th.</span></span><br />
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month and a Station exercise was held on the 9th. The Swift Training Rifle was
arousing such enthusiasm it was decided to hold team completions. With the bad
weather, mail deliveries were interrupted and travel, both on and off the
island was a problem. The weather had also made maintenance of the aerial
systems difficult but the efficiency of the radar was not affected. I'm sure
that there were celebrations over the festive period but, unfortunately, I have
found no record of the events arranged for the period. </span></div>
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the weather was poor, a few Friendly tracks were seen but enemy traffic was
absent. Transport was interrupted with no sailing to or from Lerwick from 7 to
14 Jan and the overland ferries did not resume until the 14th. Mechanical and
technical problems were encountered with the radarequipment but none serious enough to affect the
Stations efficiency. The military officers on the Station held a conference to
discuss a proposed defence plan before submission of a draft to HQ. LAC Trade
Tests were held and technical lectures were arranged for operators and
mechanics.</span></span></span><br />
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weather conditions<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for much of February
and- particularly, in the latter half of the month. The CH Station at RAF Noss
Hill lost most of one of its 240' Receiver Tower, only a 70' stump
remaining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two CHL sites at Watsness
and Clett spent much of the month with their aerials lashed down to protect
them from the gales. Skaw also suffered problems, losing a number of dipoles
from the towers in the wind. Fortunately an aerial working party from 71 wing
was able to repair the damage fairly quickly.<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few Hostiles were
seen, leading to seven red air raid warnings being declared, but no damage to
the site was reported. Two Station defence courses were run and a Station
Defence Officer arrived on the 17th. Although the new Station Defence Scheme was
still awaiting approval from higher authority, the digging of slit trenches
(part of the new scheme), was expected to start shortly.</span></span></span><br />
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there was less Hostile activity than in the previous month, with just three red
air raid warnings declared,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there was a
slight increase in the number of Friendly Coastal Command aircraft plotted.
There was an exceptionally fine period of weather during the period from 17th
to 27 and this allowed lost time on aerial maintenance to be made up. Training
lectures for Radar operators took place and training in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>W/T plotting was in progress. Defence training
continued and the new Station Defence Scheme received tentative approval.</span></div>
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</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apr 43.</i> I think
there is a glaring error <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by a staff
officer in the 71 Wing official records<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for
Apr. The entry states that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"The
Buried Reserve at Skaw (four lines if shoot), is 95% complete." This is
the only entry in all the records I have seen referring to a Buried Reserve (ie
underground) at Skaw. The entry must refer to another unit or to the Skaw
Remote Reserve, one mile to the north. Although there wasn't much air activity
a couple of interesting tracks were noted in the records. On the 6th a
suspected Hostile was picked up 60 miles to the NE at 7.000'. It was plotted to
within 19 miles of the Station before an air raid warning was sounded, A few
seconds later the aircraft was identified as a Friendly from Coastal Command
and the all clear was sounded. On the 8th a Liberator at 20.000', returning
from Russia, was detected at 117 miles to the NE and tracked to 82 miles to the
west of the radar.</span></div>
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progress with aerial installation at the Remote Reserve.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">May 43</i>. Some good
tracks were plotted on Coastal traffic to the north. On the evening of the 15th
May the escort of an "important" convoy from the north was tracked
into Lerwick but, because of the official secrets act, the air of mystery
remains! A few exchange liaison visits with the personnel from the Admiralty
Experimental Station (CHL) at Saxa Vord took place to the mutual benefit of
both units. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the 22nd a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>new procedure, not explained, was introduced
for track telling with the Filter Room in Lerwick and the Skaw Operators seemed
satisfied with the results.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Towards the end of the month a field kitchen was erected for
practice and, after many delays for bad weather, it was used to provide an
"open-air" meal for personnel on 26 May - "the novelty of a
picnic meal was enjoyed."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">July 43.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>On 7 Jul it was noted that contractors
had began dismantling<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the top section of
the northerly CH Transmitter Tower, prior to the re-alignment of the cantilever.
Early in the morning of the 8th two Hostile aircraft were seen on the radar, at
01.55 the first was seen 14 miles to the NE and the second was seen 10 minutes
later 20 miles to the east. It was suggested that both aircraft must have
passed overhead the Station without being seen or heard. Later the same day, at
22.25, a large formation of at least 11 ships was seen 10 miles to the East of
the Station. The formation, protected by two Coastal Command Aircraft, was
thought to contain an Aircraft Carrier and was heading in a southerly
direction. On 20th, just before midnight, a submarine was seen heading North,
just off the point of Lambaness .</span><br />
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completed on the 23rd and it was recorded that the re-orientation of the
cantilever was nearly complete on the 31st. On the same day, work began on the
new feeder run for the North-South Arrays.</span></span></span></div>
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of the RF7 142 (Mark III Feeders) began on<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>8 Sep, using a Blenheim<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>aircraft with
special equipment. To be honest I don't know what is meant by RF7 142 (Mark III
Feeders) but<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Receiver R3046 was also
known as the RF7.</span><br />
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was picked-up 87 miles NW of Skaw and it was tracked in an Easterly direction
for 50 miles. An unsuccessful attempt to engage the German aircraft by 2
Fighters was also plotted.</span></div>
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patrolling to the north of Skaw, engaged Heinkel 177 at 8,000'. The Fighter was
a Mosquito from 307 (Polish) Squadron, flown by Flt Sgt Jaworski and Fg Off
Ziokowski.</span></div>
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number of accurate bursts of fire lead to a confirmed kill. The Poles were not
aware of the type of plane they shot don as the He 177 had been rarely seen in
that part of the world. In fact, over 1,100 He 177s were built and it was very
unusual in that, although it had 2 propellers <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>each one was driven by 2 Daimler Benz engines
. It had a decent performance, with a top speed of about 350mph and a combat
radius of around 1.000 miles. The picture below is in the public domain but, in
fact, was taken by the US Navy in 1943.</span></span></div>
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/ Kalinowski) </span>from the same Squadron shooting down a Ju 88 A1 on the
26th. Although the operators at Skaw didn't<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>see this hostile, they were able to track the Fighter. After the 2 interceptions<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>compliments<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>were received from the Filter Room in Lerwick regarding the accuracy of
information supplied by Skaw. It was also noted that a number of Polish aircrew
were volunteering to do detachments to Shetland, previously not regarded as a
popular place to be!</span></div>
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installed transmitter for the IFF Mark III was modified to give an increased
output. I am grateful to Mike Dean, who sent me a copy of the Christmas Day
Menu. This copy was signed by a number of personnel who were on the station at
the time, including the CO and one Canadian: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Jan 44. A number of selected Radar Stations had searchlights
installed and Skaw was one of them. They were to be switched on only when
ordered and their purpose was to help in the recovery of friendly aircraft
which may be lost. The lights were to used to indicate the direction to the
nearest <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>suitable landing site. The
searchlight at Skaw was exposed on 20 Jan for the first time to help guide a
Consolidated Catalina Flying Boat to Sullom Voe. After a successful landing the
pilot personally thanked the radar Station personnel.</span></div>
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Reserve Transmitter and Receiver had been disconnected and were ready for
removal. Work had begun on dismantling the associated aerial arrays. Similar
work was in progress at a number of other CH sites, including Noss Hill, so it
can be inferred that, either the operational need for these Reserves had
reduced, or, the equipment was required elsewhere.</span></div>
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weather was poor with high winds causing breaks in aerials on a number of
sites, including<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the RAF Skaw main CH
installation. Dismantling of the Remote reserve was completed on the 25th.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">Mar 44.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although the
weather was still not good routine inspections and overhauls of the aerial arrays
were carried out. Broken dipoles on the north/South Transmitter array for the
"A" Channel were repaired by 16 Mar. A representative from No 2
Installation Unit at FAF Kidbrooke (London) visited from the 1st to the 8th of
the month to survey the site for a four-way looking Channel "B" Transmitter
Array. On the 13th lightning struck the Channel<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"A" Transmitter Array but the damage was quickly fixed by
Station personnel</span></div>
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Chain Home (ACH) Transmitter and Receiver Towers were dismantled by the 10th.
The two 90' wooden structures had stood since Dec 40 but were no longer
required - I'm sure some local use was found for the 5 inch thick pine timbers.
The slightly larger Transmitter Tower at the Remote Reserve was the next to be
taken down - the 120' high tower was down by the 19th.</span></div>
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Receiver Tower at the Skaw Remote Reserve was dismantled in May and the
official records show that removal of the gear from both the Skaw Advance Chain
Home and Remote Reserve sites was complete by the end of the month,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><em>Jun & Jul 44</em>. Very little information seems to be
available about the events<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which
occurred during the middle of the Summer. The most notable was the decision by
HQ 60 Group on 25 Jul to form Air Ministry Experimental Station 713 (AMES 713)
on the site of the remote Reserve, which had just been cleared 3 months
earlier. AMES 713 was to be an RAF manned Long Range Aid to Navigation (LORAN)
site, The American LORAN equipment was highly classified at this stage of the
war and the Unit is described in more detail here -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>http://ahistoryofrafsaxavord.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/air-ministry-experimental-station-ames.html</span></span></span></span><br />
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RAF Skaw was visited by Gp Capt Richardson from HQ 70 Wing, it was recorded at
the time that the Station Strength was : 1 Officer, 47 Airmen<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and 17 attached personnel. These figures
wound not have included any Army defence personnel <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and probably show a significant decline on the
peak strength, particularly after experienced airmen would have been needed before,
and following, the D Day landings. The August report from Skaw was signed by
Fight Lieutenant JF Prince, Officer Commanding RAF Skaw.</span></span></span></div>
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of Telephonists and, to a lesser extent, Wireless Operators was reported in 70
group. One result of this was the removal of telephone switchboards from some
Ops Rooms and smaller ones being established in Guardrooms to save personnel.
Some rearrangement of lines was necessary at RAF Skaw and at the Admiralty Experimental
Station on Saxa Vord to free-up communications for the new LORAN unit - AMES
713. In Sep the first personnel posted in to AMES 713 arrived at Skaw, the
Strength increased by 1 Officer and 2 Airmen. On 7 Sep a detachment of aerial <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>fitters began the installation of obstruction
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station strength showed a significant increase to 2 Officers , 58 Airmen plus a
further 24 Airmen on attachment, the extra personnel possibly due to the
opening of AMES 713. The Officer Commanding the Shetland Garrison, Colonel
Rusk, paid a visit to the Station on 7 Oct and work on installing the
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Calculator on Channel B was wired and checked. The Calculator, in this case,
was a device developed by the GPO at their site at Dollis Hill in NW London. It
used a goniometer, a piece of equipment designed to measure precise angles.
Goniometers were used at listening stations to determine the bearing of a
transmitter. On early radar sites they were used to measure the angle of
elevation of signals returned <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from
aircraft responses. This information, combined with the ground range of the
response, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>allowed its height to be
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</span>called Supervisor Brookbanks, who toured a number of Units with a
Concert Party. He also delivered boxes of chocolate to all RCAF personnel and
I'm sure that some were made available to the RAF! The month brought the
earliest record of a pantomime<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on Unst
that I have seen. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves was performed by some of the
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local children to the NAAFI for a party - the sight of "modern
technology" and "goodies" four years into the war must have been
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apparatus had been completed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm sure
that there would have been celebrations over the New Year Period amongst the
Scottish Servicemen and it is worth noting that a significant proportion of Unst
folk still celebrated old Christmas and old New year - 13 days later than the
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the number of entries in the Skaw records seems to decline considerably. In Jan
a working party from 21 Installation Unit, Kidbrooke completed the installation
of a new, high power, Mark X Marconi Curtain Array but there is no information
regarding the difference between this array and its predecessor. The working
party had to return in the following month to install a different aerial
matching transformer as the one fitted for the Mark x Array the previous month
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">David St George, a Radar Mechanic, arrive at Skaw late in
1944 and remained for about a year. I believe that he was posted in to AMES
713. the LORAN Unit on Outer Skaw. All the personnel from that Unit were
accommodated by, and considered part of,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>the main RAF Skaw camp. David was allocated to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a billed <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in part of the westerly domestic site area. He
took the following picture of his hut, which was kindly sent to me by Mike
Dean:</span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I notice that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in was a wooden hut, rather than a nissen hut
and that the ladies in the pin-up photos are wearing more clothes than I saw
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Along with Noss Hill and the RAF Chain Home Low Stations in
Shetland (Clett, Grutness and Watsness), Skaw was instructed to cease reporting
tracks on 4 Aug 45.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>VE Day had been
declared 3 months earlier on 8 May so, hopefully, all the recent traffic had
been friendly. Orders were also issued that the same Stations were to be placed
on a Caretaking basis with effect from 22 Aug. In Oct a working party from 21
IU Kidbrooke lowered the Transmitter Arrays at RAF Noss Hill, the other Shetland
CH site, 70 miles south of Skaw. The same working party actually overhauled the
Arrays at Skaw so the site, even though non-operational, retained the
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, I believe<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he was moved to the south
coast of England prior to D Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He, like
a number of servicemen, returned<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to the
island after the end of the war. He decided to make a map of RAF Skaw as he
remembered it. A copy was sent to my mother-in-law Lexie McMeechan <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and it is reproduced below, together with an
enlargement of the domestic area at the western end of the camp. There<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are a number of omissions as some of the camp
buildings fell into disuse before he arrived, but the map is an excellent
record. The map has been copied and displayed in a number of places, often
without Ron receiving the credit due <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A<span style="font-family: "calibri";">IR 26 - 094 - 70 Wing Appendices 1944</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">AIR 26 - 100 - 71 Wing Bucksburn 1940 - 1943</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">SD 0458</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Luftwaffe Over Scotland by Les Taylor (Whittles Publishing}</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Brief History of No. 307 Squadron by Wilheim Ratiszynski</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mike Dean</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Bob Jenner</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Lexie McMeechan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Leslie Smith</span><br />
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Gordon Carlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04360114502865961238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171230357168117236.post-83800411293387523942018-05-16T12:00:00.000+01:002018-05-21T16:47:02.015+01:00A History of RAF Skaw (AMES 56) - Part 2 - Advance CH - From Jan 41 to May 42This part of a history of RAF Skaw will cover the
period<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from the Advance Chain Home (ACH)
unit becoming operational in January 1941 until 17 May 1942, the day the full
Chain Home (CH) radar was commissioned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Whilst the staff of the ACH were concentrating on their operational role
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they would have been very aware of the
massive construction project taking place around them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A 240'<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>receiver tower was being erected just 60 yards south of their
transmitter hut and the large CH Receiver Bunker was being prepared just beyond
the tower.<br />
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It is normal for radars to be calibrated at
start-up and at intervals thereafter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Aircraft of a known size would fly at specific height on known tracks in
the area of the radar, whilst those on the ground would monitor the radar
receiver to see if, and when, the aircraft was detected by the radar. The
initial calibration of the Skaw ACH was done using a Blenheim aircraft. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(Left click on pictures to enlarge):</i><br />
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Freddie Flowers was the only Wireless Operator on
the Unit during the first Calibration and he recalled the occasion thus:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">" I
controlled the Blenheim during the calibration flights. As these fights went
out East for some distance towards Norway, a close watch had to be maintained
for any attacking enemy aircraft. Fortunately, there were none".</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></i>As soon as the equipment was ready in Jan '41, the
ACH began operating 24 hours a day, with the technical and operations personnel
working a 3 watch system. This next picture was taken by Frank Wells in Feb
'41 and I suspect that the people portrayed were glad of their issue<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sheepskin coats!</div>
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During Mar 41 German aircraft attacked the
station twice. At about 17.00 on 26 Mar an unidentified intruder approached
from the east at about 200'. It was snowing at the time and the visibility was
poor. Four bombs were dropped into the sea close to the ACH <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Transmitter Hut near the point of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lamba Ness. The aircrafts wing clipped a top corner
section of a 240' Receiver Tower, which was not yet operational. It is possible
that the bombs had been jettisoned when the pilot saw the tower suddenly looming
into view through the falling snow. Luckily, the Riley and Neat workmen who had
erected the tower, were still at Skaw and were able to repair the damage. The
following morning at about 08.15 there was another attack and this time the
enemy aircraft was identified - it was a JU88.</div>
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<span class="licensetplattr"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Two 250Kg bombs were dropped from around 400'. They hit the ground about
100 yards from the CH Transmitter block, which was still under construction,
and about 600 yards west of the ACH Ops/Tech site. The craters can be seen in
the following Flash Earth Image:</span></span></div>
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The next picture puts the distances into
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One of the results of the German attacks on the
base was unease amongst the civilian workforce. Arrangements were made to take
over part of a building at the north side of Baltasound for use as accommodation. It was owned by the
Sandisons, who also owned the pier and the shop in Baltasound called Skibhoul. The premises did not
prove popular with everyone (a number of servicemen were already billeted
there), so some sought alternative lodgings with the local Unst population.
There were many elements of the services based on the island in the war years
and the following photo shows some RAF personnel who crewed one of the Thorneycroft
High Speed Launches, which were deployed to Baltasound for air sea rescue
duties - they would have been accommodated in one of Sandisons north side
buildings as well:</div>
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During Apr 41 RAF Skaw, RAF Noss Hill and two
Shetland Chain Home Low radar stations were transferred to the control of 71 Wing,
based at Bucksburn on the western side of Aberdeen. 71 Wing also assumed Technical
responsibility for four Naval Coastal Defence U Boat units based in Shetland.
With these 8 extra units to look after 71 Wing decided to open a small Technical
detachment, with a central equipment store, in Shetland once they could find a
suitable location.</div>
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Like many RAF Stations before and since, some
individuals started up a Station Magazine. It was named appropriately "The
Out-Post" and the first edition came out in April 1941. Initially no
duplicator was available so every copy produced had to be typed or was a carbon
copy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By Aug 41 an airman called Harold Fisk managed
to procure a Roneo duplicator and, thereafter, the Out- Post had a much wider
circulation. Harold's interesting story will be told at a later date, but here
is time for one of his more famous anecdotes: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #17365d; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themeshade: 191;">"There
was a very comical interlude when a message came through to send a lorry down
to pick up the Countess of Ayr, so 2 or 3 boys polished up their buttons and
got ready to meet the Countess. When they got to Baltasound all they could see
was a little man in a bowler hat and he said "Well what do you want?"
and they said they were looking for the Countess of Ayr. He said "I don't
know anything about the Countess of Ayr but I am the County Surveyor,"
which went down very well!"</span></i> I have<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>some editions of the magazine and hope to write
at greater length on the subject in the future. </div>
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When the servicemen arrived on Unst there was no
mechanism for them to return home on leave. Indeed in the early months the CO, Flight
Lieutenant Swinney, said that he did not have the authority to approve leave and
had to refuse permission for one airman to return home to Liverpool for his
brothers funeral. Fortunately,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
situation was largely resolved soon afterwards when it was decreed that the
tour length would be set at 6 months for the early arrivals. Later on in the
life of the Unit I believe that leave was permitted.</div>
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The
"standard" East Coast CH Transmitting Tower, which was used at the
early sites was very different from the later towers used at what were known as
the West Coast sites The East Coast Tower was designed to be just under 360'
high, with 3 cantilevers (the bits sticking out) at 50', 200' and 350'). In May
41, a letter was sent to Skaw from No 2. Installation Unit at RAF Kidbrooke
(London area), instructing the removal of the cantilevers at 50 and 200' in
order to be able to hang a different transmitting aerial array. The picture
below show a standard Transmitter Tower on the left and the actual Skaw Towers
on the right, extracted from a photo taken by Derek Lucas, who was there<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in 1944. The alterations were<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to provide a change to the area of radar cover.</div>
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At the beginning of June 41 the Air Ministry
Research Establishment, based at Worth Matravers near Swanage in Dorset,
decided that a remote reserve site for RAF Skaw should be built
"particularly since the station had shown itself liable to attack". The
purpose of the Reserve site would have been to take over if the main site
became non-operational due to bomb damage, etc. It was arranged that a siting
party should set out to review the options on 9 Jun 41. The RAF Skaw Remote
Reserve will be the subject of a future section in this history so I will
return to this story later. Enemy activity was not confined to military camps
on Unst.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the morning of 13 Jun a hostile
aircraft machine gunned some crofters and their cottages about 2 miles away
from the Station.</div>
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Whilst the RAF would have had its own medical
orderlies, the civilian population of Unst had a local Nurse, Jemima Sutherland
(known as Mima), who had been born at the Westing in the SW of the island and
Dr Saxby, from Uyeasound, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who lived at
Baltasound. Incidentally, Dr Saxby's son Stephen was in the RAF and was based
at RAF Sullom Voe (Sunderlands, Catalinas &amp; Walrus) during the war. Stephen
became well known to many servicemen of a later generation as he spent many
years working in MT at RAF Saxa Vord. As mentioned in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part 1 of this story, James Palmer was the
Air Ministry Clerk of Works for the Skaw Project and, when sent to Unst, he was
accompanied by his wife Pauline. Long after the war Pauline Palmer sent the
photo below to my late mother-in-law, Lexie McMeechan. It shows a group of the
first airmen who were posted to RAF Skaw, in the area just inside the camp
gates at the western end of the site. Looking at the surroundings and the
clothes being worn I would think the photo was taken in the Spring of 1941.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pauline had
been advised that Skaw was not a place for families but she chose to remain
with her husband, even after she became pregnant. As midsummer approached she
was being helped by Mrs Clark, the widow of a Muckle Flugga Lighthouse keeper.
On 21 Jun the Dr &amp; Nurse were summoned, only to be refused entry to the
camp as there was an active <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>air raid
warning at the time. James Palmer was also away from the house at his emergency
post. Eventually the Dr and Nurse were permitted entry and the child was safely
delivered at 03.45 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on the 22 Jun 41. He
was christened James Spellisey Palmer and his mother was persuaded to take him
to a safer place soon after. As far as it is known the child was the only one
to be born on the station during the 5 year operational life of RAF Skaw. The
picture of mother and child below was taken soon after they left Skaw:</div>
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Another type of arrival caused some upheaval to the
lives of servicemen on Unst and on a number of other Shetland Islands.
Following the German invasion of Norway in Apr 40 and the countries
capitulation in June, significant numbers of Norwegian citizens attempted to
leave their occupied country and sail across the North Sea in small boats.
Although these refugees have been written about elsewhere, I have added a short
note at the end of this section. (See Note 1.)</div>
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Initially there was no suitable source of clean
drinking water available near the station so it was brought up the Floggie (the hill from Norwick) on
trucks. A pipe was laid from a small burn at Velzie (Valie, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Velyie - various spellings), to near the foot
of the hill, where the water was put<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>into
a water bowser or into containers and loaded on to the back of wagons. The
water problem was solved later when a small dam was built high up on the Burn
of Skaw, seen in this Mike Pennington photo, with the outlet pipe to the bottom
left of the small water fall.</div>
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A pipe was then laid about a mile to the western
side of the camp where tanks had been made to purify and contain the water,
whilst still providing enough height to allow a sufficient gradient for
the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>water to flow around the station as
required. The distance from the water tank to the CH Receiver Block was roughly
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60 Group had been formed in March 1940 to control
Radar Stations and other Radio units in Fighter Command. It had a number of
subsidiary Wings, which in turn controlled designated Units. RAF Skaw came
under 70 or 71 Wing at different stages of the war. In the Spring of 1941 HQ 60
Group started publishing a monthly magazine titled "RDF" and in the
first issue the Skaw ACH was complimented for managing to plot an aircraft at
106 miles range. This is the first indication I have seen to show that the unit
was achieving a creditable performance.</div>
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The ACH was fully functional but the CH Site was
growing all around the operators &amp; technicians as they performed their
duties. By the first week in April 1941 the two 360' Transmitter Towers and one
of the 240' Receiver Towers were in position, ready for fitting parties to
arrive to assemble and start to fit the electrical components. </div>
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The progress in completing both Shetland CH sites
(at Skaw and at Noss Hill), was much slower than at similar sized units on
mainland UK. Sir Robert Renwick, who was Chairman of the RDF Committee in the
Air Ministry, sent a representative, Robert Sayers, to Shetland in July '41. He
was to make exhaustive enquiries to see if anything could be done to speed up
the delivery of materials and electrical components. The long supply chain, frequent adverse weather and sailing conditions were obviously<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>causing delays. On the 13th August the camp
was visited by the Moderator of the Church of Scotland, the Right Reverend J
Hutchison Cockburn. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the airmen
remembers his visit with perhaps, a little envy<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">: <span style="color: #0f243e; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themeshade: 128;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">"I do remember the Moderator of the Church of
Scotland paid a visit. a very large bloke, very pleasant. He brought a little
team with him and they stayed the night. They had a good feed all laid out
special, but we didn't get any extra at all!"</span></i><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;"> </span>Another
visit to Skaw took place on 25 Aug when Air Marshall William Mitchell (like Mr
Sawyer in July, also from the RDF Committee) and a party of experts,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>arrived to check on progress. I don't know,
but I strongly suspect, that these high-powered visitors did not have to endure
the sea voyage from Lerwick but instead were delivered to Baltasound by Fleet
Air Arm Walrus amphibian aircraft, (see Note 2.)</div>
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An unusual event, considered interesting enough to
be recorded in the official records, occurred in Sep 41 when an airman, fishing
at Norwick, killed "a blue-nosed shark weighing about 3 cwts"
(236lb/153kg). I don't think there is such a species of shark - maybe it was
just cold or there was no expert available! </div>
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Work on the CH site,
which would also affect the ACH during this period, included the building of
the Power House and Standby Power House. I will be describing these buildings
in more detail in a later section but the records show that the Power House
generators were running as early as Oct 41 though, at that stage, not for 24
hours a day. At various places around the camp there are structures like the
one near the ACH area in the photo which follows. It was a position for light
anti-aircraft weapons (Browning machine guns).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is possible that they were put-up when the Argyle and Sutherland
Highlanders arrived after the first air attacks, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>constructed
individually during the life of the camp.</div>
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By the autumn of 1941 it was decided that better
anti-aircraft defences were required and, during September, there were two
visits to examine possible sites for placing Bofors Guns. On the 5th September
Colonel Fenton from the Royal Artillery, accompanied by some of his men,
arrived to examine possible locations and a week later a party led by Colonel
MacIntosh, also from the Royal Artillery, continued the task. These weapons
were far more effective in the anti aircraft role than the small calibre
Browning Machine guns. The guns, Swedish in design though British made, would
have been effective LAA weapons, capable<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>of firing 120<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>x 40mm rounds a
minute (each high explosive round weighing about 2lb). They were able to engage
targets as high as 23,000ft. The picture of a 40mm Bofors gun below was not
taken in Unst!;</div>
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Four sites were selected and prepared before the
first 2 guns, with crews, arrived in Jan '42. The 4 gun positions are marked on
the Flash Earth image which follows:</div>
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Due to post war demolition it is difficult to
locate all the elements which formed these sites, but there were 5 elements at,
or near, each gun - hard standing for the gun, a crew shelter alongside, a
shelter for stores <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or ammunition close
by, a billet for the troops and ablutions. This is best illustrated with Flash Earth images of the
gun site numbered 3 in the previous picture.</div>
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Ammunition, in steel or wooden cases containing 24
rounds each (often in 6 clips of 4), would have been stored close by and each
gun crew would have consisted of 7 to 10 men. The next photo shows where the
gun closest to the ACH was located, Saxa in the distance:</div>
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Mail was important to the servicemen and its
non-arrival could have an effect on morale. The "mail steamer", almost
certainly the first Earl of Zetland, had a few problems in this period, from 30
Aug to 6 Sep 41 and again from <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>26 to 29
Sep the ship was out of service needing repairs. Then on 4 Oct, when arriving
at Uyeasound, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at the south end of Unst,
the ship was bombed and machine-gunned<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>by a hostile aircraft - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>fortunately
there was no damage or casualties. On the following day, 5 Oct, RAF Skaw was
subjected to an attack by a JU88. The aircraft appeared suddenly out of the
mist, gave a short burst of machine-gun fire and dropped 4 bombs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three of these bombs exploded causing no
casualties but they did cause a temporary disruption to communications on camp.
A bomb disposal team was unable to find the fourth bomb, only managing to
locate its tail fin - the rest may have ended up in the sea.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">A spell
of very bad weather occurred from the 25th to 29th Oct 41 with sleet and high
winds causing damage to some of the unfinished buildings. The poor weather
continued into December with gales and low temperatures. On the 15th at about
13.20 there was a hit and run attack on the main Domestic site by a JU88. The
aircraft dropped a single 500Kg bomb to the NW of the site, it bounced over the
accommodation buildings, bounced for a second time<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and then exploded harmlessly in a field.
Bursts of machine gun fire caused hits on some of the huts but no one was
injured.</span></div>
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I don't know how long Flt Lt Swinney served as the
C0, it was possibly 12 months as the issue of "The Out-Post" for Nov
41 welcomes Flt Lt FJ Heath as the new CO. In fact, the editorial greeting for
the new man is somewhat effusive and will be published later.</div>
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Some of the work on completing the CH site was
complex and involved a number of "fitting parties" from the UK
mainland travelling to Unst to install equipment,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>particularly the aerial arrays which had to
be fitted to the high towers. Maurice Blair, who was based at Kidbrooke, SE
London. was one of a party sent to work on the 240' Skaw Receiver Towers in the
winter of 1941/2. The party was transported by train to Inverness, where they
boarded a Handley Page Harrow<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>aircraft.
Although originally intended as a bomber when it first flew in 1936, its lack
of performance meant that by the end of 1939 most of the 100 built were in use
in a transport role. </div>
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After landing at Sumburgh they travelled to Unst by
road and sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When working at Skaw they had
a long tent in which to assemble some of the equipment and in, Maurice's words:
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">"The
actual aerials were brass tubes mounted on insulators and the feeder tubes were
copper. We had to assemble 22' foot lengths of tubing, with a copper wire
inside, into 225 foot lengths, then pull them up the towers and, of course, fix
them, Each tower had 8 of these 225 foot lengths. It was a bit like a plumbing
job as the wires and tubes had to be brazed and soldered." </span></i>Maurice
spent the rest of the war in the RAF, ending up in Germany working on a Gee
Navigational System.</div>
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Over the Christmas period, the second at RAF Skaw,
it was cold with light snow. The festivities got off to a good start when the
facilities were improved by the arrival of a billiards table. A party for local
children was held in the Haroldswick Hall on the 24th and a dance was organised
for the evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the 25th a dinner
for all available personnel, including members of the Army Defence Force,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was arranged. That night there was a concert
with participants being volunteers from the station. A copy of the Christmas
Programme from the Out-Post:</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hit and run attack by a JU88 happened on the
4th January 1942 during a severe snow storm. Two bombs fell in the sea and a
burst of machine gun fire was ineffectual , with no casualties or damage caused.
The poor weather theme continued through most of January, with the period
between the 18th and 27th being the worst with strong gales and heavy snow. In
this 10 day period Unst was isolated, with no deliveries of rations or mail. </div>
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Operationally February was a reasonably quiet
month but there were recurrent heavy falls of snow. This made <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Unst roads outside the camp boundaries impassable
to service transport, so rations and mail had to be manhandled from the pier at
Baltasound back to the camp. The round trip of 10 miles in snow, including ascending
The Floggie, the hill from Norwick on the return, must have resulted in a few
tired airmen!</div>
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March began with better weather but by the middle
of the month strong winds returned . As an indication of slightly warmer
conditions, this time as the wind was accompanied by heavy rain. The month was
generally quiet operationally but an exception occurred on the night of the
31st when large numbers of friendly aircraft were detected heading NE, destined
for a raid against the Tirpitz, which had left Wilhelmshaven for Norway in the
middle of Jan 41. Other sources indicate that 33 Halifax bomber were launched
against the Tirpitz on the night of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>30/31
Mar, most failed to find the ship due to bad weather in the area, 5 aircraft were
shot down but no damage was done to the ship.</div>
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Although most of April was relatively quiet things
got busier towards the end of the month, with radar calibration flights taking place
on the 21st, presumably for the CH radar which was close to being operational.
The 21st also saw the showing of the first movie at Skaw, "The Boys From
Syracuse", <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a Rogers &amp; Hart
musical. It was shown in the NAAFI and proved to be popular with the airmen. It
was hoped that it would be the precursor of weekly shows accessible to all
servicemen on Unst. The following month the advert below appeared in the
Station Magazine "The Out-Post", so the film was probably the first
of many:</div>
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On the night of the 27 Apr a large force of
4-engined bombers passed over Unst<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>heading north and NE. It was later reported by the BBC that a raid had
been carried out against Trondheim (although not stated on the news, that was
where the Tirpitz<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was sheltering). On
the following night another force of heavy bombers passed over heading towards
the same target. From other sources it is apparent that,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on the first night a mixed force of 43 Halifax's
and Lancaster's took part in the raid and on the second night another mixed force
of 33 aircraft took part. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No hits on the
Tirpitz resulted but, over the two nights, 7 bombers were shot down. The RAF Skaw
records show that on the 29th there was "a fair amount of searching being
carried out by Wellington and Catalina, apparently for missing aircraft from
the raids on Trondheim".</div>
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The most significant event in May 1941 happened on
the 17th, when the final CH radar was commissioned<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and took over operations from the ACH. This
history of RAF Skaw will continue in Part 3, which will cover the final CH
structures and equipment<br />
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<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Note 1.
Norwegian Refugees &amp; Unst</u></b> . Rather than stay in their homeland
under Nazi occupation, many Norwegians<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>chose to cross the North Sea in a variety of small boats/fishing
vessels, dodging German surveillance. Whilst most of the escapees were men,
women and children also made the journey. I don't have precise numbers of those
who sailed for Shetland, but in the period mid '41 to mid ' 42 about 20 boats
and somewhere in the region of 300 passengers <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>arrived in Unst alone. It is inevitable that a
number of boats, due to weather or inaccurate navigation, never made landfall.
Most of those who came ashore on the island immediately became<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the responsibility of the Royal Navy and
their personnel from the Admiralty Experimental Station No 4 (Saxa Vord), who
were billeted at Hamarsgarth in Haroldswick. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Naval CO was actually appointed an
Honorary Norwegian Consul, which gave him more authority when dealing with the
refugees and with local businesses in providing provisions, etc<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for the new arrivals. Whilst it was in a less
active capacity, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the RAF personnel at
Skaw were still involved in this story, as the following extract from the
official Skaw record for Apr 42 shows:<br />
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Another involvement with small boats, which was
then a mystery, involved the very occasional sighting of small boats heading
either towards Norway or inbound towards Shetland. At the time it proved
impossible to discover any information about these sailings. Since the war the
story of the "Shetland Bus" has become well known - clandestine
operations landing agents and equipment/arms in Norway and the retrieval of
agents on the return trips. The operations were initially based at Lunna House
on the Shetland Mainland and the personnel were Norwegian. For those who wish
to know more about this part of the war effort there is an excellent book by
David Howarth called "The Shetland Bus" , published by The Shetland
Times and a website here: <a href="http://shetlandbus.com/">http://shetlandbus.com/</a></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Note 2.
Walrus Aircraft</u> . </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>700 Royal Naval
Air Squadron was formed at Hatston in Orkney (HMS Sparrowhawk) in Jan 40. The
Squadron detached a few Walrus aircraft to RAF Sullom Voe in Shetland. The
Walrus (which began life as the Supermarine Seagull V), was a single engined
(Bristol Pegasus) amphibian, which first flew in 1933. It proved to be a
reliable aircraft, with around 750 built. Walrus aircraft were used in many
roles from reconnaissance to air sea rescue and the type was credited with
sinking at least 5 enemy submarines during WWII.</div>
In 1940 a detachment of Royal Marines was based at
Baltasound where they built a slip, just to the west of the pier. Although this
slip was frequently used after the War by Landing Craft delivering items for
Saxa Vord and by the local Boating Club, it's original purpose was to permit
Walrus amphibians to taxi ashore. In the case of RAF Skaw the aircraft were
usually used to deliver urgently need spares and visiting VIPs.<br />
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Unst Heritage Centre</div>
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Sqn Ldr Mike Dean MBE</div>
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Lexie McMeechan<br />
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Bob Jenner</div>
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AIR 26 - 100 - 71 Wing Bucksburn 1940 - 1943</div>
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