Coverack Y Station

31 Jul 2020 13:42 - 31 Jul 2020 21:16 #1 by Richard Austen
Coverack Y Station was created by Richard Austen
Mods, please forgive me if this is the incorrect way to refer to an old post of 18 months ago - I have copied and pasted this below.....
EDIT; Original reference inserted and links updated

Coverack was a Naval Y station. The TNA record states VHF Intercept + D/F + Research facilties. The D/F tower was 300 yards from the station.

Today the site seems to be a home but GE for 2001 shows an extensive farm complex - gone by 2006

The TNA location is X205402 which gives NGR SW 780 174. HERE

The base for the D/F tower seem to be at 7797 1750 HERE

Just to the south is an interesting area which in GE 2006 shows a central object with four white objects around it at NE, SE, SW, and NW. I suspected an Adcock style DF station, but its missing from the GE 2002 Layer.

Note the earlier TNA records have a slightly different location of X207405 (SW 782 177) HERE . Was it incorrect, or did they relocate the station?

I've put this as a separate entry from the generic Y station thread as it's worthy of further research.


I have a connection to the "interesting area" to which Carnaby refers in his post. It would appear that the site was re-opened post D-Day to observe German traffic and this would, I believe, be the reason why this "area" is away from the original Y Service tower. It was a new build..

Please see www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/70/a5907170.shtml

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