{"id":145,"date":"2008-04-20T17:32:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T17:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2013-11-17T22:47:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T22:47:27","slug":"torpedo-testing-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/military\/torpedo-testing-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Torpedo Testing Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loch Long&#8217;s Torpedo Testing Station is now almost 100 years old &#8211; it was completed in 1912, just in time for WWI. Embarrassingly, a German spy was found here in 1915, and the station finally closed in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>This first picture is from 2005, showing how it looked then &#8211; unfortunately it was set on fire and one of the buildings has since been demolished.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Disused Quay (by Ben Cooper)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cycleologist\/436809748\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Disused Quay (by Ben Cooper)\" alt=\"Disused Quay (by Ben Cooper)\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/150\/436809748_4e8909983d_z.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It&#8217;s still an impressive structure, though.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Torpedo Testing Station (by Ben Cooper)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cycleologist\/2428441469\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Torpedo Testing Station (by Ben Cooper)\" alt=\"Torpedo Testing Station (by Ben Cooper)\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2356\/2428441469_903084dafc_z.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cradles were used to move the torpedos on tracks.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Torpedo cradle (by Ben Cooper)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cycleologist\/2428799738\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Torpedo cradle (by Ben Cooper)\" alt=\"Torpedo cradle (by Ben Cooper)\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2376\/2428799738_1cc9c67e2a_z.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fire damage is obvious further on.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Torpedo Shed (by Ben Cooper)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cycleologist\/2428017915\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Torpedo Shed (by Ben Cooper)\" alt=\"Torpedo Shed (by Ben Cooper)\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2171\/2428017915_6a1e1b9999_z.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The outside walkway has a beautiful view over Arrochar.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Lookout (by Ben Cooper)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cycleologist\/2428052317\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Lookout (by Ben Cooper)\" alt=\"Lookout (by Ben Cooper)\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2318\/2428052317_ded9857213_z.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quite a lot of the roof has gone.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Fragile Roof (by Ben Cooper)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cycleologist\/2428166573\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Fragile Roof (by Ben Cooper)\" alt=\"Fragile Roof (by Ben Cooper)\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2070\/2428166573_c2359cc7fd_z.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The observation gallery is now sadly destroyed by fire.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"From the dock (by Ben Cooper)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cycleologist\/2428386649\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"From the dock (by Ben Cooper)\" alt=\"From the dock (by Ben Cooper)\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3283\/2428386649_e64e7b5ca2_z.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The worker&#8217;s housing is still standing.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Fish Wallpaper (by Ben Cooper)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cycleologist\/2429329236\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Fish Wallpaper (by Ben Cooper)\" alt=\"Fish Wallpaper (by Ben Cooper)\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2036\/2429329236_a168c78ab1_z.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cycleologist\/sets\/72157604645790161\/show\/\" target=\"_blank\">full-screen slideshow<\/a>, or browse the full image collection:<\/p>\n<p>[flickr-gallery mode=&#8221;photoset&#8221; photoset=&#8221;72157604645790161&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loch Long&#8217;s Torpedo Testing Station is now almost 100 years old &#8211; it was completed in 1912, just in time for WWI. Embarrassingly, a German spy was found here in 1915, and the station finally closed in the 1980s. This first picture is from 2005, showing how it looked then &#8211; unfortunately it was set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2428799738_1cc9c67e2a_z.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yGoo-2l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}