LORAN STATION DEMING
45 12 51.50 N 61 10 33.00 W (1960 Mercury Datum)
Fact Sheet
| Site Survey: | SUMMER 1942 |
| Construction Date | JUN 27, 1942 - Ground broken ~1 JAN 1943 - Station transferred to the CANADIANS |
| Constructed by: | MIT/CONTRACTORS |
| Established: | 1 OCT 1942 |
| Disestablished: | 31 DEC 1981 |
| Operated by: | CANADA |
| Chain: | NORTH ATLANTIC |
| Station Letter designation: | 1L2, 1L7, 1H1, 1H2, “D” |
| Station code name: | DOG |
| Station Unit Number: | 4 |
| Station nickname: | |
| On-air testing date: | 1L2, 01 OCT 1942 – BACCARO 1L7, 15 MAR 1945 – PORT-AUX-BASIQUE |
| Operational date: | 01 OCT 1942 - 16 hours daily until JUN 1943 |
| Operations Ceased: | 312400Z DEC 1981 |
| Station Operation: | Double MASTER |
| Station pair: | 1L2, 1H2, BACCARO 1L7, 1H1, PORT-AUX-BASIQUE |
| Loran Rate: | 1L2, 1L7, 1H1, 1H2 |
| On-Air: | 1L2, 01 OCT 1942 1L7, 26 OCT 1945 1H1, 1950 1H2, 1950 |
| Off-Air | 1L2, 1950 1L7, 1950 1H1, 312400Z DEC 1981 1H2, 312400Z DEC 1981 |
| Monitor Rate: | |
| Equipment: | 1966 - T-137 Transmitter installed FEB 1976 – AN/FPN-53, LRE and Rubidium Oscillators Installed |
| Personnel Allowance: | |
| Miscellaneous: | 1 OCT 1942 - 16 hr daily North Atlantic Service ~1 JAN 1943 - Radiation Laboratory turned the station over to the Canadian Royal Navy JUN 1943 - Full 24 hour service |
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Commanding Officers / Officers in Charge |
OIC: LT Mary Effie Francis Mills WRCNS WWII |
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Citations:
Whitehead ( Deming Island), Nova Scotia
As rate 1L2 (master) Oct 1942 to 1945
Additional history being researched.
Citation:
WWII RCN Awards: MILLS, Mary Effie Francis, Lieutenant . Member - Order of the British Empire (MBE) WRCNS / Officer-in-Charge Loran Station at Whitehead (Deming Island), Nova Scotia.
Awarded as per Canada Gazette of 15 June 1946 "For exemplary devotion to duty under difficult conditions. As Officer-in-Charge of the isolated Loran station at Whitehead, Nova Scotia, Lieutenant Mills was responsible for the operation and maintenance of highly technical equipment and the administration of a station where the maintenance of morale was of great importance. Her constant cheerfulness throughout her appointment at Whitehead won the admiration of those serving with her." Home: Winnipeg, Manitoba. Born in 1910.
Note:
She gave a interview in 2000 at age 90. Lt. Mills was sent
to Ottawa to learn about Loran, a new kind of location radar
developed at Boston's Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. For almost a year, Mills and two other women
worked behind a curtain in an office, their work deemed too
sensitive for prying eyes. They received electronic
signals, forwarded the data to MIT and helped in basic
research on waves and radar beams. Then she was transferred
to Whitehead, N.S where she led 25 WRENS working in
eight-hour shifts around the clock, monitoring radio signals
from sea.