Note: There are no other photos available on the internet related to this facility except those describing products. The above photo is the only one that a search will produce related to the cable loading dock.
Twice while I was aboard USNS AEOLUS.I saw this berth at Simplex Wire and Cable
up the river from Portsmouth Navy Yard. This is where we would come to load
cable or discharge cable for the SOSUS program one of those nice little secrets
that the traitor Warrant Officer Walker sold to the Soviets. Most of the switch
gear aboard the ship had been designed by an Electrical Engineer named Bill
Clews. I actually got to have lunch with him at the Mall which was just less
than a mile from the facility. This was in 1981, Being the tourist that I am I
had to see the sights so I went and saw the Cabella's store in Kittery Maine
and I took the tours of the Portsmouth Harbor and even went out and saw
an Island owned by the Congregational Church. I met a young lady that
was studying to be a lawyer at Brown University. The name has slipped my
memory. All the pictures I had of those days were lost long ago. And
this is why again we are looking at an Aerial Shot . It seems that
no one finds the Newington Port glamorous enough to take a picture of so
all that basically exists is of Portsmouth itself. One night while there
I took a cab out to get some pizza . I think we went about four miles to
find one. I had gone inside to order and I have to say that I was rather
embarrassed , There was this girl that could not have been anymore than
15 years old in the store with nothing but a fishnet top on. This is one
of those things that sticks with you. She said "you'll have to
excuse my uniform, I've been playing softball". Mean while it was hard
to do business with the ladies behind the counter and all the young guys
were staring at her..
