fv1609 Posted November 28, 2012 Author Share Posted November 28, 2012 OK, that confuses things! HMS Vernon was the Torpedo and mine establishment. Was it a support site for divers? The only other thing that comes to mind is a Foxer.That is a large clanging device that was towed about for distracting acoustic mines and torpedos. Though this is fixed to the lake/sea bed.(Is the Rosie for autograph cokkie that keeps appearing at the tyop of the page a futher attempt to distract?) The lake was a torpedo test lake that I assume was part of Vernon. Although things other than torpedoes & mines were investigated there in those days.:-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 I know they were also into the electrical side of things. An early tidal power station? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted November 28, 2012 Author Share Posted November 28, 2012 An early tidal power station? Now you're being silly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 No desperate!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted November 28, 2012 Author Share Posted November 28, 2012 No desperate!! Tony you've not explored all avenues yet. Not much speculation has been given to what is in the hut on the raft, what is below the surface is just a part of a complete system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 These where once seen in the lake at the Lakeside shopping centre, put kids in tank, connect the hauling down hawser to car then drive off and park, don't forget to pop back at lunchtime to drop crisps and chocolate down the delivery food pipe, and cola down the drink pipe. The tank will surface as you drive off, try to remember to stop and haul tank in and get kids out, that's if you can get them to leave all the electrical gadgets behind..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted November 28, 2012 Author Share Posted November 28, 2012 These where once seen in the lake at the Lakeside shopping centre, put kids in tank, connect the hauling down hawser to car then drive off and park, don't forget to pop back at lunchtime to drop crisps and chocolate down the delivery food pipe, and cola down the drink pipe. The tank will surface as you drive off, try to remember to stop and haul tank in and get kids out, that's if you can get them to leave all the electrical gadgets behind..... Now then, now then. Nothing like that, this was a training school of His Majesty's Royal Navy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Oh for goodness sake, I couldn't see it for looking! It is of course a waste tank, the hut obviously containing a toilet. There is an electrical float switch in the tank indicating when it should be hauled away for emptying using the wire rope shown. When the tank is empty it requires the ballast weight and rope to keep it below the hut. It has to be allowed to surface when pulled away from the floating Khazi to permit emptying. Which reminds me - we were discussing the problem of adapting a luxurious barge already converted for living, but which contained a waste tank below the new minimum Euro size and which could not readily be made bigger. An idea arose whereby a large dingy containing a tank could be towed behind the barge with a flexi waste pipe connected. Somehow it seemed appropriate to rename the barge AFFLUENT and name the tender EFFLUENT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted November 28, 2012 Author Share Posted November 28, 2012 Oh for goodness sake, I couldn't see it for looking! It is of course a waste tank, the hut obviously containing a toilet. There is an electrical float switch in the tank indicating when it should be hauled away for emptying using the wire rope shown. When the tank is empty it requires the ballast weight and rope to keep it below the hut. It has to be allowed to surface when pulled away from the floating Khazi to permit emptying. Which reminds me - we were discussing the problem of adapting a luxurious barge already converted for living, but which contained a waste tank below the new minimum Euro size and which could not readily be made bigger. An idea arose whereby a large dingy containing a tank could be towed behind the barge with a flexi waste pipe connected. Somehow it seemed appropriate to rename the barge AFFLUENT and name the tender EFFLUENT. Oh yes & I suppose it had a poop deck :shocked: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 I guess it has piped soul music from Lou Rawls too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 These where once seen in the lake at the Lakeside shopping centre, My mistake, looking at the picture again I think it was Bluewater...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyH Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Would it be ............................some sort.....................of ...........................noise generator ? To simulate sound of submarines props/engines. CrabfatBill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted November 28, 2012 Author Share Posted November 28, 2012 Would it be ............................some sort.....................of ...........................noise generator ? To simulate sound of submarines props/engines. CrabfatBill That's an interesting thought because somehow they would need something like that to develop monitoring equipment & train the operators, but that's not the answer here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Sonar test equipment? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted November 28, 2012 Author Share Posted November 28, 2012 Sonar test equipment? Nope. they would need something like that to develop monitoring equipment & train the operators, but that's not the answer here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Driving me nuts!!! Army, Navy or Aifr Force? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Driving me nuts!!! Army, Navy or Aifr Force? Navy training school Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted November 28, 2012 Author Share Posted November 28, 2012 Driving me nuts!!! Army, Navy or Aifr Force? As Bernard said. this was a training school of His Majesty's Royal Navy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Diver training aid? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted November 28, 2012 Author Share Posted November 28, 2012 Diver training aid? Nope although probably a good test of a divers skill to help set it all up. Anyone any ideas as to when this was? It has a bearing on my 'Yes' to HMS Vernon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerrykins Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Was it an Asdic training aid, noise being generated in the cylinder and operators could tune onto it, ping it, being that it could be moved about said lake as a pretend submarine? Jerry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Child Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Nope nothing deliberately to produce a thermal change Lauren. Is it an air pressure accumulator? Drop it down, pressure builds up, squashes the container and that produces a useable pressure at the end of the hose? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Child Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Was it an Asdic training aid, noise being generated in the cylinder and operators could tune onto it, ping it, being that it could be moved about said lake as a pretend submarine? Jerry Or maybe communication with divers? Call down the pipe and it gets amplified in the tank and the sound waves transmitted into the water? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted November 28, 2012 Author Share Posted November 28, 2012 Was it an Asdic training aid, noise being generated in the cylinder and operators could tune onto it, ping it, being that it could be moved about said lake as a pretend submarine? Jerry Jerry others have suggested similar sorts of things. It is not sonar, sound, Asdic related, although it looks as if it might be! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted November 28, 2012 Author Share Posted November 28, 2012 Is it an air pressure accumulator? Drop it down, pressure builds up, squashes the container and that produces a useable pressure at the end of the hose? Interesting concept Lauren but no hose involved here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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