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General view from hill to W.

C 66542 CN

Description General view from hill to W.

Date 30/5/1996

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number C 66542 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 652614

Scope and Content World War I and II Naval Base, Lyness, Hoy, Orkney Islands At Lyness on Hoy, close to the sounds which made up the main fleet anchorage, naval quarters, stores and an oil depot were established during World War I and were considerably developed in World War II to become the Base Headquarters, HMS Proserpine. The base came to include an extensive area for the repair of anti-submarine boom nets, 16 above-ground oil storage tanks and, beneath the nearby hill of Wee Fea, six very large underground fuel tanks which were capable of storing some 100,000 tons of oil. This is a general view of Lyness (left) and Rinnigill (right) on either side of Ore Bay, with the island of Flotta in the distance. Only a few isolated wartime structures now survive, conspicuous among which in this view are the pump house on the lower slopes of the hill (centre right), the group of buildings which made up the NAAFI (Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes) and recreation centre close to one of the piers, and, on the extreme left, the one surviving above-ground oil tank and associated pump house, now a museum. At the heart of the Orkney archipelago, Scapa Flow was the main fleet anchorage for the Royal Navy during both World Wars. Its vital importance led to the creation of one of the most concentrated defence networks in Britain. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Colour negative

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