Hi folks,

I've been trying to search for info / pics on the UK termination end of the TAT-1 cable (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAT-1) and came across this little jem - http://indicatorloops.com/obanbay.htm including details of the buiildings. May be worth starting a wiki page on the oban area?

Have you looked at the Contents Page?

You'll find Oban, or more accurately Ganavan, covered in some detail - we couldn't resist

If you fire TAT-1 into the search, you'll find we're on the case for that too, only listed as a First at the moment, we're hunting down more info on the subject.

Wikipedia information is second-hand, not source material, so you won't normally find it referred to in SeSco, which doesn't mind admitting it's the same (second-hand info) as there's no shame in that. What would be wrong is being second-hand source referring or quoting a second-hand source - which I hope makes sense

meh - Thought I'd searched. Suspect typo and there was a user error in failing to look at the contents page. Definately on the 'todo: road trip' list.
btw - I saw that some of the tat-1 spare valves were being flogged on ebay recently, although the chances of finding it again are minimal (ever tried to search ebay for 'tat'? 80% of all listings....)

I think the valves were for sale quite a while ago, but there was another site that had some info relating to them and their history.

I can't recall it, and the details are hazy, but I think the asking price was around $16,000 - whether it was obtained is another story.

Made me reach for my spares box, as I have couple of valves that look like 2 litre Irn-Bru bottles, but I doubt they'd be worth that much as they might be big, but don't have a famous history

Hi Guys

I have just taken over as the new researcher at the Oban War and Peace Museum.  On display in the museum is details and photographs of the building in which the cable was terminated, also we have abit of the cable itself and photographs of the men and the vessels used in bringing the cable ashore.  I am willing to copy some of the photographs for you and any info that i have if you think that will help in anyway.  We have some watchkeepers that actually worked on the project if you would like to talk to them.  The museum itself is not open again until March 2nd and for those of you who don't know the museum has moved.  We are now in the Old Oban Times building on the Esplanade.  If we can help you we will.  Come along and see us.

Nikki

Hi Nikki,

As you may have gathered, we've suffered a little trial and tribulation over the past few days thanks to Lycos unilaterally killing the email account that used to reliably channel important info to us.

Your offer is most welcome, and anything which appears will be fully attributed as to source of course.

Not that it has to be earned, but I see we've yet to have a page for the museum - that would have been rectified already, had we not been suffering a little diversion

Now that I know you have even more goodies on show than I thought (including the flying boat items) I will have to do something to make sure I actually get into Oban at a time when the museum is open. My usual travel patterns tend to be at anti-social times - a habit I should break, so might even see the interior other than in darkness and through glass

Hello Nikki, and welcome! Glad to see another teuchter among us! If researching War and Peace History is your interest, I'm sure you'll enjoy yourself on this forum. I wonder if there is anything in your museum dealing with Unity Mitford's death in Oban at the end of the war?

I have been thinking of going and getting some better pictures and sketches of the loop site before the grass gets too high, the ones on that site were taken a few years ago.

The TAT-1 site is on private ground and we have been unable to get access.  I took some pictures from offshore last year, it is quite a large site site and looks very interesting.

Another puzzle for anyone around Oban - there is RN Y station shown at Oban in a booklet that I have, any ideas?  It's possible the GPO site at Ganavan was built on a previous site but there are no signs of WWII type buildings there.