The Port Laing Submarine Mining Station – 1900 to 1906
The Guv’y Pier
Introduction – What was a Submarine Mining Station?
General History of the Submarine Mining Service in the Forth
1863 – Creation of the Submarine Mining Service in the UK and around the world
1887 – Submarine Mining in the Forth
1888 – First enrolment at Leith Fort
1888 – First Training Camps on Inchkeith
1889 – 2nd Camp on Inchkeith, Training at Chatham, First Company Song
1892 to 1897 – Inchkeith Camps
1898 – The move to South Queensferry
1900 – The move to North Queensferry
1901 – Entertaining the Boys Brigade!
1902 – Demonstrations
1903 – Announcement of Rosyth Dockyard
1905 – The Beginning of the End
1906 – The end of the Submarine Mining Service
A Coda
Submarine Mines deployed in anger
How the mines worked and the layout of a minefield
Electrical Control of a Mine
Layout of a Minefield
Details of activities at Port Laing
The Submarine Mining Station at Port Laing
The Port Laing Minefield
The men and their duties
Port Laing Beach today