Date 5th January 1939 Left Moorings or Slipway 3-30 pm Returned 4-45 pm
Motor Working 1.25 Hours Wind East State of Sea Rough
Boat left moorings owing to a fresh Easterly wind suddenly rising which endangered the return of two small boats to port, it was decided to escort them to harbour. Returned to moorings everything quite satisfactory.
William J Mowatt
Motor Mechanic
1939, just before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote to then President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Einstein and several other scientists told Roosevelt of efforts in Nazi Germany to purify uranium-235, which could be used to build an atomic bomb. It was shortly thereafter that the United States Government began the serious undertaking known then only as "The Manhattan Project." Simply put, the Manhattan Project was committed to expediting research that would produce a viable atomic bomb.