The Port Laing Submarine Mining Station – 1900 to 1906
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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, and the Second Company Song
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
Other work performed by the Submarine Mining Service. Clearing wrecks, Diving, the Brennan Torpedo
Suppliers of Submarine Mining Equipment
Submarine Mines deployed in anger
How the mines worked and the layout of a minefield
Electrical Control of a Mine
Layout of a Minefield
Elements of a Submarine Mining Station
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