SHIP'S RADIO ROOMS 

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WWII ERA

The main radio office aboard  HMCS ALGONQUIN (R17) looking aft as it appeared on July 31, 1945. In the centre of the photo is a Canadian Marconi CSR5A receiver tuned to around 10 mc/s. It is believed that this receiver may have been fitted during ALGONQUIN'S Canadian refit of February 1945. Click on image to enlarge.  (Public Archives Canada Photo  HS-1533-1 submitted by Spud Roscoe. Colourized by Copi;ou)

 

Iroquois (G89) radio room 1943. The 'Sparker' is receiving something on the National RAS  receiver. Download image to enlarge. (Provided by Lewis Bodkin. Coloutized by Copilot)

HMCS HAIDA's Wireless Office #1 in 1944. Starboard view. The most predominant piece of equipment is the Admiralty B28 receiver. (Photo by  David Faribarn. Colourized by  Chatgpt)

 
 

HMCS HAIDA's Wireless Office #1 in 1944. Aft view. At the right side is the Westinghouse TBL transmitter.  Note how the vent trunking in the upper right is used as a place to hang up the headphones. (Photo by  David Faribarn. Colourized by Chatgpt)

Radio room of HMCS PRINCE RUPERT (K324), a River Class frigate. This was  taken on October 22nd, 1943, the day after she arrived in Halifax from her builders Yarrows Ltd., Esquimalt B.C. Left side of photo: PV500H transmitter. Right side of photo from left to right: Two Marconi SMR-3 receivers and a FR12 and just a sliver of an MSL5 can be seen at the right. (Public Archives Canada Photo HS-0262-1 submitted by Spud Roscoe. Colourized by Copilot.)

 

Taken in 1950, the equipment in this radio room aboard an RCMP vessel was representative of that used in WWII. Some of the diesel powered, Bangor class minesweepers became RCMP patrol boats after WWII and retained their naval radios. / From left to right: Ben Colp, Bob Bell and Irwin Beatty. Behind the operators from left to right is: part of PV500 series transmitter, PV500H transmitter,. MDF5 direction finding set and an FR12, all Canadian Marconi built equipment. Note that the FR12 is using bare copper transmission line Normally the RF feedthrough insulator is to the left of the meter. Here it is to the right. (Photo courtesy of Staff Sergeant Ben Colp, R.C.M.P. Marine Division submitted by Spud Roscoe)

 

A portion of the radio room aboard RCMP IRVINE. From left to right: Canadian Marconi FR12, CSR5 and MSL5. The CSR5 was last tuning a station around 475 kc/s.  (Photo courtesy of Staff Sergeant Ben Colp, R.C.M.P. Marine Division submitted by Spud Roscoe. Colorized by Copilot.)

 

Radio 1 - HMCS SWANSEA, November 1960.  Radio Two is the room behind it with the CM11. The photo was taken taken in the doorway to Radio One. Left to Right: Don Ryan ABRM, Malcolm MacPhail OSRM, Ron Bell ABSG and Dave Carlin OSSG. (Photo by Spud Roscoe. Colourized by Copilot)

 

Bob Calnen (left) and brother Bill Calnen (right) both long serving Radio Officers in the Naval Auxiliary Fleet. The guy in the middle s a deck hand currently unidentified. This photo was taken in 1969 on the deep sea tug CFAV ST. CHARLES,  call sign CZFT. Shown here is the CM11 transmitter, CSR5 receiver and a AN/URT-502 (TED-3) UHF transmitter. It is more than likely that there is a AN/URR-35 below the the URT-502. (Photo by Paul du Mesnil.  Colourized by Copilot)

 

Radioman J. F. "John" Leightizer in Radio 1 aboard HMCS BUCKINGHAM. (Photo via J. F.  Leightizer. Colorized by Copilot)

Radio operator Ron Mark aboard Athabaskan 219 in 1952. The receiver with the grey panel is the RCA TE236 which covered 15 to 600 KHz. It was used to guard the international distress frequency of 500 KHz. Note the Man Aloft board to the left of the clock.Click on image to enlarge. (From the collection of Ron Mark. Colourized by Copilot)

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Contributors and Credits:

1) http://battle-of-the-atlantic.blogspot.com by Allan Riley
2) Tm Brent <tgb(at)telus.net>
3) Ronald Mark      rondmark(at)telus.net
4) Lewis Bodkin   [<5bodkin555(at)gmail.com>
 
 

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