Searchlight emplacement, view from North
SC 670606
Description Searchlight emplacement, view from North
Date 28/5/1996
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 670606
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 66956
Scope and Content View from north of searchlight emplacement, Galtness Battery, Shapinsay, Orkney Islands Galtness Battery was a coast battery built to defend Kirkwall Bay from attack from fast moving motor torpedo boats and other hostile craft. This shows one of the searchlight emplacements that once housed a 90cm coast defence searchlight that illuminated Broad Sound for the twin six-pounder, quick-firing gun. Orkney and 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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