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Scanned image of Battery Observation posts (towers) for W.W.2 twin 6-pounder gun emplacements, view from South East. Light beacon in the background.
SC 670478
Description Scanned image of Battery Observation posts (towers) for W.W.2 twin 6-pounder gun emplacements, view from South East. Light beacon in the background.
Date 21/5/1996
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 670478
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 66921 CN
Scope and Content View from the south-east of No1 gun emplacement, Balfour Battery, Hoxa Head, South Ronaldsay, Orkney Islands Balfour Battery is one of the coast batteries 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. The top observation post directed the gun; the lower one, the searchlights. The gun house is on the left with magazine and crew shelter either side of the observation tower. 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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