Abstract
The twenty-first birthday of the Institute coincides very closely with that of commercial marine radar. Many merchant ships were fitted with naval radars between 1942 and 1945 but these bore little resemblance to the sets which would be needed for peaceful purposes.Even before the war had ended, the United Kingdom Conference on Radio for Marine Transport (U.K.R.M.T.) was set up under the auspices of the Radio Board of the War Cabinet, to discuss the peacetime applications of the war developments. This conference led to the establishment of an Application Committee (R.A.M.N.A.C.) which kept the administration, the user and the manufacturer in touch. Immediately after the war, the Admiralty was in collaboration with the Ministry of Transport (M.O.T.) and the shipowners to arrange the supply of surplus 3-cm (Type 268) radar to the merchant navy, pending the design and production of commercial sets. At the same time the Admiralty Signal and Radar Establishment (A.S.R.E., now A.S.W.E.) was drawing up a specification1 to meet the needs of navigation and anti-collision. A prototype to this specification was demonstrated to all concerned in 1946.
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