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Can anyone help me trace the history of HMTS Alert. Operated by bt marine

Good old days! I did my advanced course in PK in 1986 😊

A thoroughly intreresting video that sparks one to investigate further!

Too much distracting background noise on this site. It is a major distraction.

The constant background beeps were an unwelcome distraction.

This Synchronome clock should be much quieter than this when operating. You've got too much power driving it.

If anyone can locate a Saudi group of workers from 82/83 be helpful mispha alqhatani searching

Oh my, cartoons illustration so sterotype racist...but awesome research, thoroughly enjoyed it, Btw, i wrote a paper on this . On Pender Marconi,morse n Faber

When were the veined brass plated movements made were they contempory with crackle finish movements?

Was this made in the London premises or Croydon or even Coventry a post war oak case 1940 -50

My Great Uncle was William Henry Cross, and was captain of the CS Retriever. I never met him, and family members are vague about where he retired. Or when he died. Did anyone here know him in retirement ?

I am proud about myself that I was one of the students who were trained and graduated by the Cable & WIRELESS Co. Professional Training and engineering educatio schemes . I worked for this great company most of my life.

Different countries have different time zones, but were telegraph offices open 24 hours a day?

Get the basics correct please - the ships name was Leinster - pronounced Lenster, not Lenister as you seem to say each time.

I worked 14 years at The Western Telegraph Company Fortaleza, Ce branch.

Great video! Though I haven't been to PK (I was 13 in 1980), I recognised Mr Eddy Morris in the video, who was our Electronics Principles instructor at Batelco college, Bahrain in the nineties.

I have one of these with a crackle finish it is most beautiful looks like granite finish

It was in the mid 1980s that I attended the college, sad to see so much of the site gone now, the classroom I was in is now a gift shop.

shame that the other buildings were torn down. i also read that somebody or sombodies had salvaged some of tat1

wonder if that cable is still there .

cool . are there any of these old , esp the atlantic cables left or are they scrap? thanks.

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Manderin jobsworths Well Done

I visited the Recorder in Suva, Fiji in 1979.. I think then that she was the last steamer in the Cable and Wireless fleet.. Such a beautiful little ship.. Later in life I joined the Cable Enterprise in Singapore...

I was on the sister ship Cable Enterprise.. Twice.. Some of the best times of my life on that ship and I was sad when she went to the breakers... Very happy memories..

I have served on many of them.

You see the 'coins and cards' type ones in Birmingham a lot where i live. There's about 3 near me that i know of and they could be more.

The Porthcurno-Gibraltar 3 cable was laid in 1919, and the operation shown in the video was to upgrade its performance by adding a repeater to boost the signal, as well as a new section of cable at the Porthcurno end. Here are some technical details: An April 1956 article in the Post Office Electrical Engineers' Journal notes that "The Porthcurno-Gibraltar No. 3 and No. 4 cables, in which submerged telegraph repeaters were laid during 1955, are typical of many older single-core cables in the network of Cable & Wireless, Ltd. They are unloaded, insulated with gutta-percha and armoured." These cables to Gibraltar had been in service for many years at this time, No .3 having been laid in 1919 and No. 4 in 1925, and both were upgraded in 1955 by the installation of a single repeater in each cable to amplify the signal and triple the signalling speed. Cable No. 3 was upgraded at the Porthcurno end, and No. 4 at the Gibraltar end. In preparation for the upgrade, the article notes that "The sea cable between the repeater and the receiving terminal has been relaid with polythene cable in each case." So the 1954 photo and video footage must show the landing at PK of the replacement section for the Porthcurno-Gibraltar No. 3 cable. Each cable would then have remained in service with its old configuration until the repeater was installed a few months later, permitting a seamless switchover.

I wonder if they just happen to have the exact replica of the police box a.ak.a. Dr.who,TARDIS on display in the museum in London. sometimes I like to take a time travel trip back through time in the 1958.

Where is the documentary evidence the lamps were originally "red" from? I am aware the City of London police posts have red-coloured fresnel glass, but many of the surviving photos of the type 2 metropolitan boxes seem to show clear glass for the fresnel lenses, and the Trench plans indicated the fresnel lamps were just conventionally available fresnel lamps that were sourced independently of the build. My grandad (who died in 1987) - worked in central London from 1920-1975 - and he mentioned a lot of inconsistencies in many of these boxes, but whilst he mentioned white lights at the top, he never mentioned red. He worked down The Temple, so I am not claiming his knowledge was from more than 2 or 3 different boxes - or that his memory (or mine) was right! Just curious.

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I still see loads in Stockport, most are KX100 Plus and I see 1 K6

I was expecting a view of the gravity arm. Disappointing not to actually se the mechanism in action.

I believe my great-grandfather William Samuel Johnson was a St Helenian crew member who served on the Lady Denison-Pender during WW2. I've tried searching for any records of his service but no luck so far. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This is better than the normal synchronome transmitter, in that it also has the (more expensive) one second switch, to additionally provide one second pulses. However, the clock seems to be really badly set up. Also, why doesn’t the video show a close up of the gravity arm doing its job?

Ya see I've for a different name for this Time and relative dimensions in space. Tardis for short

If you see one disappear, it could be the Doctor!

the animation was very atmospheric, i couldn't help feeling the box would de-materialise at any moment....

Wait, it doesn’t bigger on the inside?

Thank you for your interesting short video - but sadly completely spoilt by the incessant repeating and very annoying continuous 'music' bed. Your 24 minute version is so much better without it as we can hear every word without straining or getting a headache from the continuous din!

Thank you for a most interesting video. Having visited your museum, it would have been nice to have explanations (or captions explaining) the equipment shown in your cutaways. Also a brief visit to the old cable terminal hut near the seashore would have been full of nostalgia of the Empire for viewers. I felt that, although your Archivist, Charlotte, was very good, her section was rather too long and some of the overseas pictures were not as relevant as photos taken at Porthcurno itself over the years. It was good to see the affable Rudi once again but for those who were unaware, it would have been nice to link him to the section about overseas trainees coming to PK - and in his case never returning home!

THANKS SO MUCH for placing this on TH-cam! 73 DE W8LV BILL

It is obvious that Zimmerman had no understanding of what the situation in Mexico was.

An interesting video, but there is something wrong with the assertion that Hindi derives from Latin and Greek! Hindi surely derives from Sanskrit which like Latin and Greek derives from proto Indo-European.

We have still got 3 k6's in Plymouth

Sir Giles made a great design - iconic and loved by all

Served on the HMTS MONARCH 1968-69 John Wayre

Served on her 1868-69 John Wayre

Thanks for posting. I love this stuff.