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LORAN STATION BACCARO
43 27 33.38 N 65 28 10.95 W

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Fact Sheet:

Site Survey: Summer 1942
Construction Date Summer 1942
Constructed by: MIT/Contractors
Established: 1 OCT 1942
Disestablished: JAN 1982
Operated by: Royal Canadian Navy
Chain:  
Station Letter designation: “B”
Station code name: BAKER
Station Unit Number: 3
Station nickname:  
On-air testing date:  
Operational date: 1 OCT 1942
Operations Ceased: 312400Z DEC 1981
Station Operation:  
Station pair: 1L1 – MONTAUK POINT – SEP 1942-011800ZJUL1943
1L1/1H3 – NANTUCKET – 012200ZJUL1943 – DEC 1981
1L2/1H2 – DEMING – OCT 1942 – DEC 1981
 
Loran Rate:  
On-Air: 1L1, SEP 1942
1L2, OCT 1942
1H2, 1 FEB 1950
1H3, 1 FEB 1950
 
Off-Air 1L1, FEB 1950
1L2, FEB 1950
1H2, 31 DEC 1981
1H3, 31 DEC 1980
 
Monitor Rate:  
Equipment:  
Personnel Allowance:  
Miscellaneous: Ground broken Jun 19, 1942 – turned over to the Canadian Royal Navy this date.

Colac timer install 1975

Commanding Officers / Officers in Charge OIC: LT Mary Orell Armstrong WRCNS WWII

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Baccaro Station, Nova Scotia

As rate 1L1 (slave) from September 1942 to October 1942
As rate 1L2 (slave) from October 1942 to 1945.
 

Citation:

ARMSTRONG, Mary Orell, Lieutenant - Member - Order of the British Empire (MBE) - WRCNS / OIC W/T Station Baccaro, N.S. - Awarded as per Canada Gazette of 15 June 1946 and London Gazette of 13 June 1946. Home: Fort William, Ontario. S/Lt, WRCNS on 16 September 1944.

"For exemplary devotion to duty under difficult conditions. As Officer-in-Charge of the isolated W/T Station at Bacarro, Nova Scotia, Lieutenant Armstrong was responsible for the operation and maintenance of highly technical equipment and the administration of a station where the maintenance of morale was of great importance. Her constant cheerfulness throughout her appointment at Baccaro won the admiration of those serving with her."

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