Most the cabling work the old girl was employed in when Iwas on her from 1982 to 84 was laying listening hydrophones. W hich was one of the main duties in wartime for the RN boats. We laid devises of Gibraltar and in the Helsingfor straits to listen for red herrings. Plus noise ranges up north to trial our subs before they went on patrol.
One of the Bull boats was transfered to the GPO during the war and became the Alert, because the original did not answer a challenge signal from a yank destroyer, when she was putting a shore end in. All the deck officers were killed I believe as they were working at the tme. So the story goes from the old cabling hands I met on her.
Dave