Gun emplacement, view of gun platform
SC 670612
Description Gun emplacement, view of gun platform
Date 28/5/1996
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 670612
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 66963
Scope and Content View of gun emplacement, Galtness Battery, Shapinsay, Orkney Islands Galtness Battery was built during World War II to stop motor torpedo boats and other fast moving hostile craft entering Kirkwall Bay through Broad Sound. This view of the twin six-pounder, quick-firing gun emplacement shows the gun pit surrounded at the rear by the platform with rails for the ammunition trolleys and by the overhead cover. Kirkwall Bay was used by the Royal Navy during World Wars I and II primarily as a centre of contraband control, also forming part of the outer defences for Scapa Flow. After each war the defence equipment was removed leaving empty emplacements. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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