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Naval Facility Centerville Beach March 1958 – September 1993. Lofargram writers on watch floor. In 1958 Naval Facility (NAVFAC) Centerville Beach was the third Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) shore terminal, in which output of the array at sea was processed and displayed by means of the Low Frequency Analyzer and Recorder (LOFAR), established on the Pacific coast.
During 1958 the remainder of the Pacific stations at Naval Facility Point Sur and Centerville Beach in California and Pacific Beach, Washington, and Coos Head near Coos Bay, Oregon were installed. [3] Six Pacific coast systems had been planned but only five Naval Facilities were constructed.
Naval Facility Centerville Beach; P. Point Barrow Long Range Radar Site; Primorsko-Akhtarsk air base This page was last edited on 4 March 2019, at 07:35 (UTC). Text ...
During World War II, naval personnel stationed at Point Sur, California conducted experiments with early sonar and radar systems. In 1949, while conducting research into the use of sound to detect submarines, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory reported it was able to detect submarines at ranges of 10 to 15 nautical miles (19 to 28 km; 12 to 17 mi) using SOFAR hydrophones off Point Sur.
This is not the first time the Navy has had to contend with toxic materials and contamination at its facilities. Some 400 miles north of Long Beach, critics say there are many reasons to be skeptical.
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Hot spots there include Usal Beach, the King Range, Centerville Beach — which are all part of a region known as the Lost Coast — and an area about two miles north of the Klamath River.
Historians note the 50-acre military site — known as Naval Facility Cape Hatteras — conducted “secret monitoring of submarines,” according to CoastalReview.org.