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TECHNICAL
How an indicator loop works Reading a US Navy loop signature Who made the Loop cables? Harbour Defence ASDIC (HDA) John Caldecott FRS, and Alexander Crichton Mitchell FRSE - geomagneticians of note.
Royal Australian NavyOverview of Royal Navy loop stations Oban (Argyll, Scotland) Isle of May (Firth of Forth, Scotland) Bereshaven & Queenstown (now called Bere Is. and Cobh, Ireland) Cromarty (Moray Firth, Scotland) Portballintrae (Antrim, Northern Ireland) Loch Ewe (North West Scotland). Guard loops and Controlled Mining only. Sheppey Island, Kent) - Shellness and Sheerness: Guard loops and Controlled Mining at only. Scapa Flow, Orkney Isles Plymouth Portsmouth Portland (HMS Osprey) Penang Cumbrae Rosyth Dunoon Trincomalee (Ceylon) Crete (Suda Bay) Greece Malta Haifa Palestine (Israel) Alexandria (Egypt) Algiers (Algeria, North Africa) Dardanelles (Turkey) Bosphorus - northern end (Turkey) Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey) Hong Kong Walcheren Island - Flushing to Breskens (Netherlands) South Africa (Capetown, Durban, East London, Port Elizabeth) Mombasa, Kenya: in Kilindini Harbour Manza Bay, Tanga, Tanzania Iceland (Hvalfjordhur or Hvalfjordur)
Royal New Zealand NavyOverview of Australian loop stations (under construction)
Moreton Bay Harbour Defences. These were located at several naval installations in and around Moreton Bay. The following webpages will be found at the "Moreton Bay" link. RAN 1: Port War Signal Station (PWSS), "Buena Vista", Wickham Point, Caloundra
RAN 2(A): Controlled Mining and Guard Loop Station at Tangalooma;
RAN 2(B): Controlled Mining and Guard Loop Station at Fort Bribie;
RAN 3: Controlled Mining and Guard Loop Station at Cowan Cowan;
RAN 4: Indicator Loop and Harbour Defence ASDIC Station at Woorim, Bribie Island;
RAN 5: Combined Training Centre (Naval Wing), Toorbul
RAN 6: Advanced Fairmile Base (AFMB), Bongaree, Bribie Island;
RAN 7: Indicator Loop and Harbour Defence ASDIC Station at Comboyuro Point, Moreton Island;
RAN 8: Boom Defence Facility: Anti-submarine Boom across the Brisbane River between Lytton and Bulwer Island;
RAN 9: Indicator Loop and Photo-electric beam Station, Myrtletown;
RAN 10: Naval Store, Pinkenba.
Also of interest: Fort Bribie, including RAN 2 Controlled Mining Station. Fort Skirmish, Woorim, Bribie Island (Skirmish Battery) Toorbul Radar Station No. 210 run by the RAAF Sydney (Loops, HDA, PE Beam) Fremantle (Loops) Darwin (Loops) Newcastle (Loop and Controlled Minefield) Port Phillip - Victoria (PE Beam) Broken Bay (Loops and Controlled Minefield) Port Kembla (Loop) Port Stephens (Loop) Botany Bay (Controlled Minefield) Port Moresby (Indicator Loops)
Auckland, Wellington & Christchurch
Royal Canadian Navy
United States NavyOverview of indicator loops in Canada Saint John Antisubmarine School at Digby (Nova Scotia) Prince Rupert (Port Edwards)
Overview of loop receiving stations in the USA 1A Bailey Island, Casco Bay (Maine) 1B South Portland at Cape Elizabeth - south-eastern end, overlooking Casco Bay (Maine) 1C North Scituate to Cape Cod (Maine); and Rhode Island (Massachusetts) 1D Nahant, East Point (Massachusetts) 1E Gloucester, 25 mi N of Boston (Massachusetts) 1F Peaks Island & Fort Williams (Maine) Peaks Island - later transferred to Fort Williams (Maine) 1G Portsmouth, Maine - on Appledore Island 1I South Westport (or Westport Point) - between Fort Rodman and US Naval Base at Newport (Massachusetts) 1X Argentia - Naval Base (Newfoundland) Fort Wright, Fishers Island Naval Training School (Harbor Defense), NY Fort Tilden New York Harbor Entrance Control Post (HECP) Woody Island Kodiak (Alaska) Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu HECP Fort Story, Cape Henry, Virginia HECP Fort Windfield Scott, San Francisco, California HECP San Pedro, California Ocracoke, North Carolina Panama US Coast Guard cableship Pequot