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Scanned image of Battery Observation posts (towers) for W.W.2 twin 6-pounder gun emplacements, view from South West
SC 600931
Description Scanned image of Battery Observation posts (towers) for W.W.2 twin 6-pounder gun emplacements, view from South West
Date 21/5/1996
Catalogue Number SC 600931
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 73246 CN
Scope and Content View from south-west of No 1 gun emplacement, Balfour Battery, Hoxa Head, South Ronaldsay, Orkney Islands Balfour Battery was constructed during World War II to defend Scapa Flow from hostile motor torpedo boats and other fast moving craft. This shows No 1 twin six-pounder gun emplacement's director tower (centre). The top observation post directed the guns; the lower one, the searchlights. The building on the right is the magazine with the crew shelter on the left. Scapa Flow was used by the Royal Navy as a base and fleet anchorage for the Home Fleet during World Wars I and II. After each war the defence equipment was removed leaving the emplacements and other buildings empty and abandoned. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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