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tainly possible to detect a mystified awe on the
countenance of the illustrious stranger, as he
issued from Number One under the pilotage of
Captain Ryan the c Genie ' of the place.
As a direct consequence of the erection of this
hut, from this time onwards, most experimental
work was carried on from the north side of the
Forth, and as the star of Hawkcraig waxed, so
that of Granton, as a hydrophone base, waned.
In May of the same year came into being the
pioneer of the shore listening stations, on the
island of Inchcolm, which lies in the Forth, about
a mile and a half south of Hawkcraig Point.
was followed shortly afterwards, in May, by
another at Elie in Fife, some eighteen miles east
of Hawkcraig, on the same side of the Forth.
Both these stations
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were manned by four chief
petty officers, not under the command of an
officer.
In June the field
of operations was extended,
and an excursion was made to Cromarty.
This programme involved an increase in establishment,
and cable-laying drifters, with the
result that Vanguard, Couronne (in later days the
drifter detailed for instructional purposes) and
Eros were added to the fleet.
The early autumn found Lowestoft commissioned
as a hydrophone station, to suffer, during
its history as an active station, bombardment by
German battle- cruisers.