Museum Located at Fort Perch Rock, New Brighton, Merseyside.
The Museum project was mainly instigated by Stan McNally, with the help of other ex Merchant Navy Radio Officers’ Mike Goulbourne and John Hudson,and members of the LMRES [Liverpool Marine Radio and Electronics Society] to whom we must owe our gratitude for saving the three full ships radio room equipments. The equipments available for public display are Marconi and Kelvin Hughes types. It is well worth a visit if you are in the area and is real trip down memory lane for Radio Officers.
The following photographs have been kindly donated to the Radio Officers Association. If any member would like a copy of any photograph displayed from the museum, then please contact the Association by utilising the ‘Contact’ page.
 Kelvin Hughes Zealand S1250 Main Transmitter |
 Plaque for the Official Opening of Fort Perch Liverpool |
 Stan MacNally at the Marconi Main Ships Radio Room Console |
 Marconi Oceanspan VII Main Transmitter |
 Marconi Marine Salvor III emergency transmitter on the left with the Marconi Marine ‘Atalanta’ main receiver on the right |
 Marconi Marine SSB Marlin Transmitter |
 Ex ‘Bibby Line’ Radio Officer Mike Goulboune at the Marconi Ships radio Room Console. |
 Marconi Commandant HS Main Transmitter |
 Stan at the Kelvin Hughes ships Radio Station |
 Kelvin Hughes Main Ships Radio Station with Main Transmitter Zealand S1250 to the right |
 John Hudson at the Marconi Ships Main Console |
 Marconi Atalanta Main Receiver |
 Kelvin Hughes A125 – M125 |
 Marconi Coast Alert and the very familiar Auto Keying Device (AKD). I did not know what a Coast Alert was but Clive Evans from FPR advises “Coast Alert was a 2182 auto alarm external unit which could be connected to any Mimco transmitter as an additional alarm for those ships who did not have a 2182khz alarm on board.” |
 Marconi Apollo main receiver. Equipment I think many R/O’s will have sailed with. |
 Marconi Lodestar Mk 3 automatic direction finder |
 Marconi Salvor emergency transmitter |
 Marconi Survivor 2 lifeboat equipment. Did anyone ever actually take the risk and test this type of equipment by dropping it over the side? |
Hey! How can all that gear belong in a museum? I sailed on various ships with all of the stuff pictured here and it wasn’t that long ago. Was it? Surely not!
The more I carpe, the fewer the diem as they say.
Bernard, that depends on the condition of the batteries that are charging your memory bank. I think in my case a bit more electrolyte might be needed because the remaining ‘little grey cells’ are not what they were.