Memorabilia

This drawing (on a piece of wallpaper) was done by my father who then built a balsa wood model of it complete with electric motor.

An Ocean Weather Service cap badge from my fathers collection

Badges for Radio Radar, Met, and Steward & Cook

A key found amongst my fathers memorabilia, unsure which ship it was from

A name plate removed from a weather ship, possibly from when it was still in the RN

A postage stamp depicting a Weather ship

A couple of envelopes sent from Weather Surveyor / Reporter

A scarce Vibroplex bug key with its original case and lead that has found its way over here to the UK Previous proud owner Paul R. Cope / G4BNU informs me "This key was used on WU/railway networks and has obviously handled lots of traffic in its time. It was found in a basement somewhere in Ohio U.S.A. In the 1970's I used it for a few years on the British Ocean Weather Ship "Weather Reporter" / MYDN in the North Atlantic when I was a Radio Op, also since then on the Amateur bands"."When found, it had very heavy carbon deposits around the contacts that I guess, was made worse as it is a single contact for both dots and dashes. The Guy who sold me it said its owner had passed away but used to be a Western Union Op and had something to do with the railroad, he took it away with him during WW2 and I guess this is where the carbon came from, keying some high power military Tx . So I think the key lay in the basement from 1945 until 1970 and really its amazing its survived. 73. Paul ".

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