automatic weather station
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19820219-001
- Event 1939-1945 Second World War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer Siemens Company
- Date Made 1943/10/
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada, Province / Territory - Newfoundland and Labrador
- Category Tools and equipment for science and technology
- Sub-category Meteorological tools and equipment
- Department Arms and Technology
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1943/10/01
- Latest 1943/10/31
- Brand Name / Model WFL-6 (WETTER-FUNKGERAET LAND)
- Materials Iron
- Service Component German Navy
- Unit U-537
- Caption Weather Station "Kurt"
- Additional Information In October 1943, the crew of U-537 landed secretly on the coast of Labrador and set up this German weather station at Martin's Bay. Code-named "Kurt," the station broadcast weather reports every three hours for a few days, then fell silent forever. In 1981, alerted by a German researcher, Department of National Defence historian W.A.B. Douglas and the Canadian Coast Guard located and dismantled "Kurt".