Winch Station, Loch Long. | Explore Cowal

Winch Station, Loch Long.

Posted by explorecowal on September 20, 2015

Posted in: Uncategorized. Tagged: loch, long, station, winch. 1 Comment

Curiosity got the better of me. Seeing these buildings a while back and more recently from the Waverley…..a bit of exploring was well overdue.

Two buildings at the location, one housing two large winches, the other empty, both exposed to the elements.

Not quite sure what these winches were for, but something to do with the Loch, perhaps the adjacent Base or the old Torpedo Range.

I stand corrected, the winches were to deploy an anti-submarine boom across the Loch during WWII. Thanks to Scott Adams for the info.

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A similar boom across the Clyde, Cloch to Dunoon.

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